ProjectManager.com

MARCH 22, 2024

Construction projects are often long and complicated endeavors. What’s included in the contractor payment schedule and the different types are a critical part of the professional relationship between the project owner and the general contractor. The contractor payment schedule is how contractors in construction projects are paid.

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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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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Gantt charts have been a fundamental project management tool for over a century, and it’s easy to understand why. They provide a visual overview of project tasks and the timeframe in which they need to be completed. The only difference from a Gantt chart used in any other industry is that it manages construction tasks.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 1, 2024

Asana is project management software that offers a variety of easy-to-use tools like timelines, task lists and kanban boards which are mainly used for managing simple projects, everyday tasks and team workflows. ProjectManager’s Gantt chart offer more project management features than an Asana Gantt chart.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Many project management tools can help you plan, manage and track your projects. If we compare Gantt charts vs. kanban boards we’ll find both are valuable to your project in different ways. A Gantt chart is a graphical representation of a project schedule from start to finish. What Is a Gantt Chart?

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To ensure that your project is meeting scheduling and budget milestones, you need to have project metrics to measure your progress and performance. Project metrics are essential to delivering a project on time and within its budget. But what are project metrics? Why are they so important to a project?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Monday is a matchup made for project management professionals. Asana vs. Monday are both similar project management tools. They have features, such as project tracking, workflow automation and other standard project management software features. Which one to choose? You can’t have both, so you want what’s best.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Projects cost money. But what’s harder to discern is if the project is worth the investment. The last thing stakeholders want is to discover the project isn’t financially effective. The cost performance index is a way to measure the financial performance of a project. Project costs can vary. Everyone knows that.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Projects don’t end with the final deliverable. This is doubly true with construction projects in what’s called post-construction. Finally, we’ll show how using project management software can help with post-construction. Project management software will help make this process more efficient. What is post-construction?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Gantt chart has become a staple of project management. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software with Gantt charts that would make Henry Gantt proud. Our Gantt charts are more than horizontal bar charts that organize tasks across project phases. It’s the name of Henry Gantt (1861-1919).

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Whether you call it project financial management or project accounting, managing a project’s finances is essential to delivering a successful project. There’s a lot of planning, managing and tracking involved. But what exactly is financial project management? What Is Project Financial Management?

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Avaza

MARCH 17, 2017

Gain a better understanding of Task progress by using our new Percentage Complete feature! You can also view reports to estimate how long it will take to complete a piece of work. Using Percentage Complete on Tasks. Figure: Enter Percentage Complete on Task Edit Popup.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

Coming up with long-term goals for a business or organization is just the beginning of a five-year project. If you’re not familiar with a balanced scorecard, we’ll define the term and show the four perspectives it tracks as well as explain what should be included in a balanced scorecard. Why should one use it?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Projects are planned and then life happens. Ideally, project managers know better than to execute their project plans without a performance measurement baseline. They need to know immediately if their team is on track or falling behind. What Is a Performance Measurement Baseline? Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Slack task management is its stealth feature. You probably think of Slack as being used for time management, not project management, but when integrated with ProjectManager, you get the best of both worlds. Before we get to that, though, let’s explore Slack and whether it has task management features. What Is Slack?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You’ve heard it countless times; teams are projects’ most valuable resource. But a project manager has to connect each team member to that work. Resource loading is a process to keep team members fully engaged throughout the project. You can view resource loading on a daily, weekly, monthly or project basis.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 31, 2023

Getting a project done requires prioritizing tasks. Learn how a project backlog can help. We’ll show you have to create one to better manage your project. What Is a Project Backlog? A project backlog is a list of project tasks that are prioritized for a specific period of time in the project.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2022

When you’re managing a project, you have to track your team’s progress while they execute their work to stick to your schedule. This is done with task management, and one of the cornerstones of task management is knowing the percent complete of the task. What Is Percent Complete?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

Just as a body works best when healthy, such is also the case with a project. To understand what project health is let’s define it and the areas that should be monitored to make sure your project is healthy. What Is Project Health? Project management software acts as the thermometer for the project.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 9, 2023

Time management is also critical to project management. Whatever type of work you do, if there are teams or employees, then you need a timesheet for time tracking and expense tracking. A timesheet is a physical or electronic document that’s used by an employer to track the time of an employee over a period of time.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2023

Projects are planned and scheduled, but that’s just the preamble to the real work. Executing projects to meet deadlines without overspending the budget requires a project manager to understand resource availability. Resources are anything used to deliver project tasks including materials, equipment, labor and more.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 1, 2023

There are many ways to manage a project. While project management software is the gold standard, there are many free project management templates for Google that you can download to plan, manage and track your projects. They cover all phases of the project through its life cycle.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Capital budgeting is a process by which investments in large-scale projects are analyzed, evaluated and prioritized. Two concepts that underlie capital budgeting are opportunity cost and the time value of money, both of which address the long-term nature of most capital projects. ProjectManager’s dashboards track costs in real time.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2022

Managing a project is a very challenging, but project evaluation makes it easier. Everything starts with careful planning, which sets the stage for the execution phase where estimations, plans and schedules guide the project team as they complete tasks and deliverables. What Is Project Evaluation?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For a project to function properly and be delivered on time and within its budget, all the roles and responsibilities of everyone involved must be clearly defined and communicated. Everyone has their part to play in the process, which is orchestrated by the project manager acting on behalf of the project owner.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The project budget is developed during the planning phase of a project. It’s a document that captures the total costs required to complete a project over a specified timeframe. The more accurate your forecast for project costs, the more likely you’ll be able to deliver a successful project and make a profit.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 2, 2023

Resource optimization is key to delivering a successful project. Resources, of course, are anything used to execute the project, including human resources and non-human resources. Resource management techniques keep a project on schedule. Learn more Why Is Resource Optimization Important In Project Management?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

Projects are expensive. When a contractor bids on a project or a manufacturer takes on a job, they need to have an accurate forecast of the price for the project to make a profit, which is why job costing is so important. Using job costing can also help future projects. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 24, 2020

Projects are made up of a large number of tasks, and keeping track of those tasks is a primary role of a project manager. Sometimes, the tasks in a project all run smoothly and independently of each other, and there are no complexities. What is Float in Project Management? Delay happens.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 29, 2021

Projects, whether they’re large or small, are journeys. Setting project milestones prevents this. Setting project milestones prevents this. Break up your big projects with milestones on ProjectManager.com’s Gantt charts. All projects have start dates and end dates. The answer: project milestones.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 15, 2020

Project managers are responsible for tasks across every part of a business. If you had to boil it down and define the core function of a project manager in just one sentence, it would be something like, “Project managers ensure work is finished on time and within budget.”. What is Schedule Variance?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

As projects are all about the bottom line, you can imagine the importance of project profitability in project management. Being able to determine beforehand whether a project will turn a profit is how organizations can decide which projects to initiate and which ones to skip. What Is Project Profitability?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 20, 2023

Planning for construction projects isn’t enough. Construction submittals are an integral part of construction project management. We’ll outline the various types of construction submittals and the process to help for your next project. We’ll define the term and explain its importance. What Is a Construction Submittal?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Projects need approval before they can be executed. A project charter is a project planning document that sells the project to stakeholders and sponsors. But there are a lot of elements to any successful project charter. So, what is a project charter, exactly? What Is a Project Charter?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 5, 2019

When you are trying to calculate percentage complete in a Gantt chart, you need to take into account various different figures, and get lots of information from other people. There are simple ways to track percent complete on your project, so you know what to input into your software. What is Percent Complete?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 26, 2023

Then we’ll go a step further by offering free templates and software that can help with construction project management. Construction specifications are the products, materials and work that are defined in a construction contract between a construction owner and the construction manager hired to deliver the project.

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