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APRIL 16, 2024

Learn how to create a timeline that can be used to visualize how tasks or projects will be executed over time, identify who will be responsible for completing them and identify milestones and deliverables. But there are some other advantages of learning how to make a timeline in Excel using our method.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Work in Progress As the project moves into the execution, monitoring and controlling phase, you’ll need to keep track of the progress and performance of your team to make sure that the project is on schedule and staying within the budget. You need to monitor these resources and allocate them wisely.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

Let’s explain what a test case is and then we’ll show you how to write one, step by step. It’s a document that outlines the steps, data, prerequisites and post-conditions needed to verify the software feature or functionality. We have unlimited file storage so you can attach all pertinent documentation to the card for reference.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

We’ll answer that first and then explain what activities occur during post-construction and the various types of documentation that are used. Finally, we’ll show how using project management software can help with post-construction. For example, one construction document that we’ll define shortly is the punch list.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

There are other ways, of course, such as email or documentation, however, a meeting provides a space for questions and feedback. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to plan a productive meeting. If you need any supporting documentation to hand out, be sure to have it printed prior to the meeting. It’s not professional.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

How To Manage Stakeholder Expectations In 6 Steps It can be a challenge to manage stakeholder expectations, but it’s an important part of project management. A stakeholder map has four quadrants, keep satisfied, manage closely, monitor and keep informed. Document the stakeholders: Not everyone is a stakeholder.

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MARCH 14, 2024

How to Create a Project Strategy An organization must conceive a project strategy before identifying projects that will help achieve its long-term goals. Establish Project Tracking Methods Once the project is in motion and tasks are being worked on, the project manager needs a method to monitor and track the team’s progress and performance.

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JANUARY 21, 2022

Learn what is a project scope baseline and how to make one. In this video, our host Jennifer Bridges PMP explains how to define the project scope and why it is important to create a scope baseline for your projects. The scope baseline is used as a reference to monitor project progress and compare actual versus planned results.

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JULY 5, 2022

A business case is a project management document that explains how the benefits of a project overweigh its costs and why it should be executed. A business case is an important project document to prove to your client, customer or stakeholder that the project you’re pitching is a sound investment. How to Write A Business Case.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 27, 2023

It’s important to monitor progress against your plan and to do that you need accurate, updated information about what people are doing and how much time they continue to have to work on your projects. The information you get today is only good for today – who knows what their priorities will be in three months.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In this blog, we’ll go through a step-by-step guide on how to create a project timeline in Excel using various methods and then, we’ll explore other project scheduling tools that can help you create a project timeline such as Gantt charts, kanban boards or project calendars. Why Should You Make a Project Timeline In Excel?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Then we’ll break down the creative brief into its essential parts and show you how to write one to deliver project success. A creative brief is a short document that’s used in marketing, advertising and design projects. These are creative briefs that incorporate all three types of creative briefs in one document.

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JULY 19, 2021

Monitor outcome – monitor the impact of the decision on the project. Sometimes you need to know how to make a group decision ; sometimes you can make the call yourself. To ensure that decisions and outcomes are also properly documented, add them to the Key Decision Log (which you might call the Project Decision Log ).

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Before we get into how to manage timesheets and the timesheet management software that can help you do this more efficiently, let’s define some of the terms to get a better understanding of timesheet management. While timesheets originated as paper documents, they’re now almost exclusively used in spreadsheets or digit tools.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

The need for a business case is that it collects the proposal, outline, strategy and marketing plan in one document and offers a full look at how the project will benefit the organization. Document everything. The research you’ll need to create a strong business case is the why, what, how and who. Business Case Checklist.

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Can you truly have a well-monitored project and a motivated team working harmoniously? Explore the world of project monitoring and controlling , where we'll guide you through project oversight without overwhelming your team. This article will help you balance diligent project monitoring and foster a less stressful team environment.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Before we share how to calculate the manufacturing cycle time, let’s make sure we’re clear on what that term means. Project management software can help manufacturers plan, track and monitor their cycle time. So let’s move on to explaining how to calculate cycle time in manufacturing. Our dashboard is ready when you are.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

In this article we’ll look at the types of artifacts in project management, typical documents for each type. There’s also a checklist of project artifacts by phase at the end, which you can use as an aide-memoire for creating your own documentation. For example: a project management artifact is the project closure document.

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APRIL 17, 2024

The transaction between buyer and seller is documented at every stage, and this paperwork serves a purpose. One of those business documents is a sales order. To distinguish between other transactional documents, we’ll define a sales invoice and purchase order and how they differ from sales orders. What Is a Sales Order?

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APRIL 8, 2021

How do you communicate that information with stakeholders and the team so they understand the project? You use a project brief, an important document that outlines what the project is about, to do just that. Read on to learn more about them, and how to make one for yourself. How to Create a Project Brief.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

A project execution plan is a document for executing projects that helps you strategize, come up with project management processes and put the whole thing into action. Needless to add, it’s an essential project management document. A project execution plan is a document used to define how you will execute a project.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Monitoring costs in real time helps you stay on budget. How to Create an Event Budget. To do that you need to monitor your actual costs and compare them with the planned costs for the event. You can also monitor variance in real time to help you stay on budget. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

ProjectManager becomes a central hub for all your project discussions and, with unlimited file storage, a repository for all project documentation. How to Use ProjectManager and Slack for Managing Tasks Let’s take a look at how you can use ProjectManager for Slack task management. It’s a two-way street, too.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Scope tolerance is measured as an agreed variation from the product description, and any potential variation should be documented in the product breakdown structure. Quality Tolerance Quality tolerances are targets that define acceptable quality criteria and performance for a product, and are documented in the product descriptions.

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MARCH 6, 2024

In this blog, we’ll learn how to make a Gantt chart in Tableau and explore its key features and limitations. For example, you won’t be able to assign tasks to your team members, link task dependencies, track costs, allocate resources or monitor project progress. Does Tableau Have a Gantt Chart? Try it free for 30 days.

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JULY 13, 2022

How to Complete a Material Take0ff in 3 Steps. Analyze Construction Documents. Start with your drawing and other relevant construction documentation. These blueprints and other documents outline the project broadly while simultaneously detailing the specifications. Either way, the structure is as follows.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

They do everything from monitoring the budget to creating community programs to supervising other managers and developing better business practices. Plan and monitor program execution. Maintain program documentation. Track, record and compile program documentation. Coordinate projects and manager interdependencies.

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MARCH 7, 2022

The agile principles and core values are documented in the agile manifesto , a brief document that defines agile. Working software over comprehensive documentation. The writers of the agile manifesto agreed on 12 principles that define how to run an agile project. The four agile values are as follows.

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JULY 5, 2022

That creates a dilemma: how to spend their budget. How do you go about creating a capital improvement plan document? You can link dependencies to avoid delays, filter for the critical path and set a baseline to monitor your planned effort against your actual effort to keep on schedule. Learn more. They are as follows.

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APRIL 28, 2020

Simply put, a process improvement plan is a document outlining how to improve your processes after identifying and analyzing them. In a nutshell it’s how can you get better at what you do. It guides the project team on how to analyze the project processes and outlines where there’s room for measurable improvements.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

4 How to Get Started 5 Tools for Identifying Opportunities 6 Think Outside the Box 7 Where Will You Capture Opportunities? 8 Evaluating Opportunities 9 Responding to Opportunities 10 Monitoring Opportunities. Document the results of the interview. Table Of Contents. 1 Self Assessment Quiz 2 What is an Opportunity? Interviews.

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MAY 28, 2021

Imagine you’re building something conceptual, but you only have a general idea of how to do so. The most well-written contracts also outline things like how expenses should be documented by contractors and how any disagreements between contractor and employer should be handled. One of these is called a cost-plus contract.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

How to Make an IT Disaster Recovery Plan. The free IT risk assessment template collects all the data you’ll need to note how the risk can impact your IT and how to potentially control it. Because an IT disaster recovery plan is a living document, you want to revisit it and revise it with some regularity. Live Tracking.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

To do so, you’ll need a marketing implementation plan, a document that explains the steps and resources that are required to execute the marketing strategies that you defined in your marketing plan. How to Implement your Marketing Plan in 8 Steps. Document the Marketing Strategies. What Is Marketing Implementation? Learn More!

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We’re going to explain what requirements traceability is, how to make a requirements traceability matrix and explore the different types to help you ensure all of your project requirements are fulfilled by the end of the project. It’s the documentation that confirms that all product requirements have been fulfilled. Learn more.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

Any business with transactions, work processes, accounting and trades can benefit from knowing what an audit trail is, the different types of audit trails and how to do one. That can be brokerage transactions in finance, medical records in healthcare and process documentation in project management. What Is an Audit Trail?

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

But before we get into how to make one, let’s better understand the definition of a project decision log. It can be meeting information, a record or a document of the project—it’s all compiled in a decision log and passed on to the project sponsor. A decision log documents all of that information.

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