nTask

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

After drafting an impeccable project plan, the next step is to present it to your clients. This is the turning point, as PMs have to deal with the age-old ‘ How to present a project plan efficaciously ?’ Presenting a project plan requires more than just PowerPoint slides. Using A Project Management Plan.

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Resource Guru

JULY 1, 2021

That said, my stakes for poor resource planning are relatively low. For teams and companies managing and executing multiple projects, however, the ability to manage resources effectively is critical. To learn how your company (and you personally) can benefit from resource planning, keep scrolling. What is resource planning?

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Workamajig

MARCH 5, 2020

Resource planning and management is crucial for project management success. The first thing you’ll learn as a rookie project manager is this: Managing projects means managing resources. Mastering resource planning and management, thus, should be a top priority for any project manager or project-based organization.

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nTask

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

They are brilliant and insightful, and they show a lot of promise regarding the future of the projects of the company they belong to. For that, you need a Project Execution Plan (PEP). Project Execution Plan (PEP). Every day we get to see a lot of excellent ideas surfacing in the market.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. As a project manager, it’s important to understand the difference between kanban and scrum so you can determine the best approach for your team. And certainly, both methodologies have their value.

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The Digital Project Manager

MAY 29, 2016

As a digital project manager, a huge part of your role is to create project plans to help you keep projects on track. But that’s not all a project plan should do. A project plan is arguably the most important document created on your project. Posted in General Tools.

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nTask

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Agile project management has become one of the most efficient methodologies, and it continues to rake in huge profits for companies. The most significant problem people often face is adapting the methodology for their project. Agile sprint planning is one of the foundational processes of Agile. What Is Sprint Planning?

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Resource planning is an essential step in project planning. Yet most project managers gloss over planning and allocating resources. Perhaps because: Clients don’t care a lot about resource plans. Involves dealing with other project managers and higher-ups in the agency. Let’s dive in.

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Teamweek

JUNE 18, 2020

With more customers looking at reducing project risks and realizing value faster, more teams are adopting agile methods. According to a PMI survey , over 70 percent of businesses report using some form of agile to plan and execute projects. In this article, we’re going to guide you through the concepts of agile planning.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The Elite PLUS bundle includes the PMP training course, the PMP Exam Simulator, The Formula Guide, and The StudyCoach Guidebook, giving students a PMP Study Plan to follow. What is the Project Management PrepCast ? What is the Project Management PrepCast ? There are new codes each month! Why listen to me?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 6, 2024

Project management has wrought much change. From plotting Gantt charts by hand to the modern day explosion of project management software solutions, everything is different – including the nature of work itself. She may initially view her role as pretty standard: helping her boss guide the brand. To illustrate, Roger L.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2024

Knowledge areas are no longer covered in the PMBOK ® Guide - Seventh Edition. PMBOK 7 talks about the 8 project performance domains. This article reviews and explains the 10 project management Knowledge Areas from the PMBOK® Guide -- Sixth Edition. How many knowledge areas are there in project management?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2024

When a project is planned, a set of steps are outlined to deliver a product or service. Think of resource requirements as the fuel that drives all project activities. Once one understands what resource requirements are in project management, next there is estimating what those resources will be and managing them.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 15, 2024

As a program manager, PMO or project team leader, you probably think about how to plan upcoming work. And that includes the requirements for developing the project management capability in the organisation to deliver the upcoming projects. Survey your stakeholders Who benefits from the skills of the project delivery team?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 6, 2024

While Tableau doesn’t have project management features, you can still use it to make a Gantt chart. The result will be a Gantt chart diagram that shows your project schedule and basic details such as project task names, duration and due dates. This isn’t ideal when the success of the project is on the line.

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Software Review Construction Artificial Inteligence Software 343

Teamweek

MAY 13, 2021

Planning is critical to most work, including web design. Without a website project plan, you’ll have a website that yields poor results, disappoints clients, and frustrates the development team. This article will help you plan web design projects so you can deliver them successfully. How to plan a website project?

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Teamweek

JULY 15, 2022

But actually, one of the biggest mistakes marketers make is: failing to plan. You can have access to the best marketing project management tools but without a clear, documented marketing plan you’re bound to fail. According to CoSchedule, marketers who plan are three times more likely to be successful than those who don’t.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

Every project is different. Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. To better manage projects, one must clearly understand project strategy, who’s responsible for it in the organization and the steps to create a project strategy.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Project documentation, such as the project budget, project schedule or project plan, is critical for the successful delivery of projects. Because of that, as a project manager, you should be familiar with tools to create your project documents. Microsoft Word is one of those tools.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Helena Liu Earning a project management certification is the top career goal for project managers — over 1 in 5 PMs want to get a certification. For project managers, many of us want to get certified, but we simply can’t find the time given our work and social commitments for a PMP ® study plan.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 14, 2024

As project managers, most of us know how important it is to make sure that what we deliver is actually useful and used by the people we deliver it for. Change management is arguably the most important thing to securing a successful delivery, but most organizations don’t have change managers so project managers have to do it all.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 16, 2024

Excel is a versatile spreadsheet tool that can create a variety of graphs, charts and forms, including timelines for projects. Why Should You Create a Project Timeline in Excel? The best part is that it’s helpful for any type of team or organization that’s executing a plan regardless of its industry.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Creating a schedule of values is important for the project owner, contractor and subcontractors alike. It can be used to communicate what’s needed in the project, the costs associated with the activities and the management of payments. The schedule of values is an itemized list of all the project activities.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 5, 2024

Read about the benefits of an effective maintenance schedule and see how a maintenance plan can help a diverse group of industries. A maintenance schedule is the process by which maintenance departments plan, organize and coordinate the activities involved in equipment maintenance to make sure that everything is working properly.

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nTask

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Aggregate planning is a business technique that assists organizations in determining how to deploy their resources to meet future consumer demand. This is a method for planning the production of all of a company’s products over time. Typically, the planning horizon extends between […].

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2024

We start with the 5 easy steps to plan and write your budget proposal. Then I’ll show you a worked example (from a fictional proposal but you will be able to see how to apply this to your project). A proposal budget is similar to a project budget, but with a very different goal. Because you want funding for your project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

You’ve recently been asked to take over an existing project. The previous project manager might have moved on to do something else and you’ve got the project as part of an internal reshuffle of resources. And you’re staring at a system full of project documents and some emails that have been forwarded on. Consider this.

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GanttPRO Project Management

AUGUST 8, 2022

Striving to improve your project management skills, you should clearly know how to create a work plan for a project with ease. Poor planning can be a nightmare for any […]. The post How to Create a Work Plan for a Project [Guide + Visual Examples] first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Planning 64

nTask

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Creating an effective project plan is essential for any business or endeavor. Having an effective project plan can help you stay organized and on task, while also giving you […] It lays out the various tasks needed to ensure your venture is a success, as well as provides a way to track progress and measure results.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 26, 2023

A program is a set of connected projects that are under the oversight of a steering committee, which is the program governance body. Program governance is a critical component to successfully managing a program of projects. For example, our roadmap provides an overview of all the projects in a program on one visual timeline.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 17, 2024

For many projects, basic scheduling techniques are fine. Throw in some start-to-finish dependencies , make a Gantt chart , and that’s a pretty good plan. There’s no point in making your schedule more complicated than it needs to be, especially if your project is straightforward with secured resources and a degree of flexibility.

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Critical Chain Software Review Budget Risk Management 341

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Microsoft Power BI is a data analysis software that allows you to use various tools such as spreadsheets, pie charts, stacked bars and other types of diagrams to visualize project or business data, including the Power BI Gantt chart. But is Power BI good for project management? Does Power BI Have a Gantt Chart?

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Software Review 2021 Project Cost Software 363

Planio

MARCH 20, 2020

What’s the number one factor that influences whether your project is a success or a dud? While we’d love to say it’s the project management tool you use the truth is it’s something else: Communication. That’s why having an effective communication plan is so important. What is a communication plan? And why do you need one?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 9, 2024

Project managers want to make the best decisions for themselves, the project, and the project team. In order to do so, project managers must be aware of biases. Project managers make decisions all the time, by the hour, minute, or even second. Projects are not wars, but we can learn from Aurelius.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 11, 2024

This is managed by a warehouse management system, which we’ll explain, and detail how project management software can help improve that process. They need a clear understanding of the planning, scheduling and monitoring of warehouse operations to ensure that they’re being done properly. What Is Warehouse Management?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One of the questions I’m asked often when I’m mentoring project managers, is what is the difference between quality assurance and quality management? It is made up of three elements: Quality planning Quality control Quality assurance. It is made up of three elements: Quality planning Quality control Quality assurance.

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Proofhub

APRIL 30, 2018

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail”?—?Benjamin Benjamin Franklin Planning is something you need to do from the first day itself. Everyone in a business knows that it is important for project managers to have a solid plan to make the right project decisions. Why you need a project plan?

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