GanttPRO Project Management Blog

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Where’s All Your Time Gone? How to Find It and Get It Back

Have you ever wanted to know how much time your employees spend surfing the web, sifting through their email inbox failing to manage emails the right way or attempting to find a document hidden in a mountain-high pile of file folders? According to a Wall Street Journal article, office employees waste about 40 percent of…

11 Project Management Conferences to Attend in 2018

Professional spheres never stand on the same place. There are always new trends, development paths, and improvements. In some fields, changes take years while in others – quarters or even months. To stay on professional track, people have to be aware of latest trends as well as be prepared for new challenges. Project management is…

How to Efficiently Manage Resources, Share Charts, and Benefit from a Card View with GanttPRO

How many of your projects need to engage resources? Probably, a lot of them. Resources make work on projects easier and more efficient. Hence, effective resource management is a must for software. Or, let’s say, sometimes you need to have a card view of your tasks. But your tool provides you only with a classical…

What is Lean Project Management? Its Definition, Principles, and Methodology

It’s difficult to find a project where no problems occur. There will always be issues with tasks, deadlines, and assignees. No one and nothing will secure your plans from poor results. To succeed and complete a project, every manager should have diversified knowledge in many spheres. And of course, it concerns methodologies. Among them are…

Distributed Teams: What Challenges Occur and What Tools to Use

We live in a world where crucial changes happen. Traditional approaches that were common years ago step aside or even disappear forever. These shifts happen everywhere. And of course, the way we work is changing too. Just think of it: employees are no longer obliged to adhere to 8 work hours somewhere in an office…

How to Improve Your Team Efficiency and Get Results

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. Stephen King Working on a project is a difficult challenge. Working on a project together with a team is much more challenging due to a diversity of character traits, experience, motivation, etc. There always will be clashes in…

How to Effectively Evaluate Project Management Methodologies for Your Business

As a project manager, you have a tough call of duty. You have to find a way to “coordinate all the things” – establish what goes where, build a high-performing team and ensure that all the stakeholders’ needs are met. But, it takes a highly skilled leader to steer a project from inception to conclusion.…

Getting Work Done: Benefits of Using Project Templates

Making an impression on the customers and clients has become an unsaid necessity of today. Businesses are always looking for the ways through which they can leave an impact on potential clients and customers. One of the differentiating points can be delivering the projects perfectly on time without sacrificing the quality and sanctity. The use…