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MARCH 12, 2024

When a project is planned, a set of steps are outlined to deliver a product or service. Resource requirements need to be identified and allocated for those steps to be executed. Think of resource requirements as the fuel that drives all project activities. What Are Resource Requirements in Project Management?

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APRIL 17, 2024

Sales orders can be attached to kanban cards, which can be prioritized, track time and cost and plan resources to make sure the process runs smoothly. Get your free Sales Order Template Use this free Sales Order Template for Excel to manage your projects better. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is the start of strategic planning. Once the vision is defined, then the practical work begins, and strategic planning templates can facilitate that work. Why Should You Use Strategic Planning Templates? Using premade strategic planning templates is also helpful because there’s no busy work involved.

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APRIL 10, 2024

We’ll define those roles and link to some free templates to download, which will help users facilitate the order management process. Order management is a large endeavor that includes warehouse employees and managers, resource planning and often third-party logistics and shipping partners. What Is Order Management?

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A budget is a document that’s mainly used to break down the costs of executing a project or running the operations of a business for a period of time and define a maximum spending limit for the procurement of resources. Online templates can be helpful, but ProjectManager makes it easier to track budgets in our software.

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MARCH 5, 2024

A calendar is a great planning tool for tracking tasks and deliverables’ due dates, especially when executing large projects that span across months. Why Should You Use This Google Sheets Calendar Template? So why should you create this Google Sheets template?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A Gantt chart is a horizontal bar chart that’s commonly used in project management as a means to visually represent the project plan and schedule over time. Here, the project tasks are listed, their start dates and deadlines, duration, who’s assigned to that task, other resources needed to complete the task and so on.

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APRIL 19, 2024

ProjectManager’s kanban boards offer advanced planning, scheduling and tracking features to help you manage your team’s workload and track their performance. Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. Get started for free today. What Is the Difference Between Scrum and Kanban?

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APRIL 9, 2024

This free kanban board template for Google Sheets has pre-made kanban columns and kanban cards with sample project information that can be easily edited and customized as needed. How to Use This Kanban Board Template Before starting, be sure to make a copy of this template so it can be edited. Just follow the steps below.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 24, 2024

Plus, we’ll throw in some free templates to help streamline order processing. Set up customizable kanban board columns to mimic the stages of order processing and capture customer and resource information information on kanban cards. Many free project management templates for Excel and Word can help in this process.

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APRIL 25, 2024

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has powerful kanban features that can estimate project costs and track resource allocation. View planned hours and actual hours as well as planned costs and actual costs on the task card to help forecast and track resources and costs.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Construction projects are structured with schedules, budgets and resource allocation. To help you once you break ground on your construction project, we’ll throw in some free construction project management templates on estimating, scheduling and budgeting. The preconstruction meeting can also reveal holes in the construction plan.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Learn how to create a maintenance schedule and download a free maintenance schedule template to get started. Read about the benefits of an effective maintenance schedule and see how a maintenance plan can help a diverse group of industries. Gantt charts can schedule maintenance tasks, allocate resources and track costs.

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MARCH 8, 2024

The general contractor will create project plans and schedules with Gantt charts , but subcontractors need different tools to execute their work. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts are powerful planning and scheduling tools. You can use our free request for quote template (RFQ) to help you get started.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 9, 2024

Resources in construction are managed by construction resource management. There are many different types of construction resources beyond labor and we’ll define them as well as the process for construction resource management. What Is Construction Resource Management? What Is Construction Resource Management?

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APRIL 11, 2024

They need a clear understanding of the planning, scheduling and monitoring of warehouse operations to ensure that they’re being done properly. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has multiple project views to help plan, schedule and monitor warehouse operations.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Then we’ll link to a free schedule of values template to help you get started. ProjectManager is award-winning construction project management that has powerful Gantt charts that can help plan, manage and track project costs in real time. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts manage your human and nonhuman resources.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2024

How can you allocate resources wisely across all those projects? We’ll also explain the benefits and share some free templates to help you out. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that can manage multiple projects and resources in real time. That and more is what enterprise project management does.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

The project budget is developed during the planning phase of a project. To help you get started, we have 7 free budget templates that you can download right now. 7 Budgeting Templates for Business and Project Budgeting Below are seven budget templates that you can use for estimating your project’s costs.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 16, 2024

Our roadmaps show all your projects on a Gantt chart and visual timeline, which helps you prioritize tasks, allocate resources more effectively and meet your project deadlines. Planning Once a project has been approved by your client, it’s time to plan out the project. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

This work schedule template for Google Sheets allows you to list your employees and indicate their work shifts for every day of the week. Templates are only going to get you so far when it comes to managing your work schedule. Learn more Why Should You Use a Schedule Template for Google Sheets?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Managing a program or portfolio of projects involves many things, but utmost importance should be given to resource management, especially organizational resources. Resource planning, resource allocation and resource utilization are all under the umbrella term of organizational resources.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The best part is, that once you make this Excel project timeline, you’ll have a template that will allow you to estimate future project timelines based on project tasks and due dates. Get your free Project Timeline Template Use this free Project Timeline Template for Excel to manage your projects better.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing resources effectively is one way to deliver your projects on time and within budget. But what do you do when you don’t have enough resources and the deadline is quickly beating down on you? Project managers use a technique called resource smoothing. What is resource smoothing? What Is Resource Smoothing?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 25, 2024

To further help understand project cash flow, we’ll also offer an example that illustrates it, and then link to a few free templates that can help you manage project cash flow. It’s part of the financial planning for a project or an organization’s upcoming projects. What Is Project Cash Flow? Our dashboard is ready when you are.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 22, 2024

Because the construction payment schedule is linked to the project schedule, it should be part of any project plan. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software with robust Gantt charts that plan, manage and track schedules in real time. Construction project templates can help facilitate this process.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 19, 2024

Projects need resources, often consistently. Managers want to stay on budget and resources cost money, which is why they use a request for quote (RFQ) to get pricing from suppliers and contractors. Setting a baseline captures your schedule and costs so you can track that planned effort against your actual effort in real time.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Gantt charts are powerful planning tools in project management, but they’re also notoriously difficult to make. Then, we’ll explore the different tools that you can use to build a simple Gantt chart and offer some free simple Gantt chart templates to get you started. What Is a Simple Gantt Chart?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Excel project budget templates are one of the most popular tools to create a project budget. Why Should You Use This Project Budget Template for Google Sheets? This Google Sheets project budget template can be accessed anytime by project managers and team members by just clicking on a link.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

There’s a lot of planning, managing and tracking involved. Then, to help you get started, we’ll have a few free financial management templates you can download. To do this requires planning, estimating, budgeting, funding, managing project expenses and billing. It’s more than just keeping up with costs.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Many project management tools can help you plan, manage and track your projects. We’ll even do a side-by-side comparison of Gantt vs. kanban and throw in a couple of free templates so you can kick the tires of both and see if they’re a good fit for managing your project. The length of the bar is the planned duration of the task.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

Whichever of the two budgeting approaches you choose, you’re going to need to plan and track those costs throughout the year. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software with budgeting tools to help you plan, manage and track your budget in real time. Project management software can help you organize your budget.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Your team is your most valuable resource when executing a project. As you can imagine, workload planning is essential for project success. Then we’ll throw in some free templates to help with workload analysis. Project management software helps with workload analysis and capacity planning. What Is Workload Analysis?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

So our best course of action is to prepare a risk mitigation plan so that we can manage those risks that are the most dangerous to our organization effectively before they have the opportunity to negatively impact us. We outline the five steps to this process below for planning against the unexpected in your project. Learn more.

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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. A proposal budget aims to convince the evaluator who reads your proposal that you have a solid grasp of your plan and that you are worthy of being trusted with funding. If you have a budget proposal template, it probably has all the sections you need already.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Following that, we’ll go step-by-step on how to make a construction timesheet and provide you with a free template to download to help you get started with your construction timesheets. Construction timesheets give project managers and supervisors valuable insights into resource management. Resources can be human and nonhuman.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We’ll also throw in some free production planning templates. At this point, planned costs for the order will also be determined as well as capacity requirements for work centers. Managers now can get visibility into the production cycle and reallocate resources as needed to avoid costly bottlenecks.

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