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The Gantt Chart in Construction Project Management: Understanding the Best Planning & Scheduling Tool

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Gantt charts have been a fundamental project management tool for over a century, and it’s easy to understand why. Construction Gantt charts, therefore, are a natural fit. Gantt charts in construction can be used for any number of different activities. What Is a Construction Gantt Chart?

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Project Monitoring and Control: Tools & Steps

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Projects are divided into phases to make them more manageable. Project monitoring and control is how a project manager ensures the plan they’re implementing with the project team goes off without a hitch. Project controlling involves a lot of steps to thoroughly monitor the project schedule, resources and costs.

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8 Free Risk Management Templates for Excel

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If there’s one thing you can be certain of when managing a project, it’s change. Although it’s impossible to predict the future, with these free risk management templates, you can better prepare for the unexpected and be more apt to keep your project on track. However, templates can only do so much.

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How to Manage Your Project Pipeline With Software

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When you’re a project management office (PMO) or program or portfolio manager, you’re going to have to deal with multiple projects in various stages of the project pipeline. We’ll get to that in a moment as well as define project pipeline management. ProjectManager’s roadmaps help you manage your project pipeline.

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Production Control: Process, Types and Best Practices

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Once the production line is in action, managers need to keep a close eye on what’s happening to ensure they’re meeting the production schedule and delivering goods on time to retailers. Production control is the way that managers keep track of the work being done in the manufacturing facility. What Is Production Control?

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How to Manage Project Environment from Initiation to Close

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Managing a project is difficult. There are forces outside your control that can sidetrack your work. You need to be aware of the project environment and prepare for its influence on your project throughout the project management life cycle. It’s sort of like managing risk in that way. And that’s just the project!

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10 Steps for Successful Project Completion (Templates Included)

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Project planning, execution, monitoring and controlling are often the focus of project management. Project completion is the final phase of a project’s life cycle, which starts with initiation and moves through planning, execution, monitoring and controlling to project completion. That’s a mistake. What Is Project Completion?