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4 Basic Project Estimation Techniques

It’s hard to estimate a project as you never find exactly the same ones to take examples and guess how much effort, time and budget it can take. What works best in one case doesn’t work at all in any other even with the same data, teams and budget. Moreover, even the best project estimation…

Andrew Stepanov
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July 27, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
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How Stakeholder Management Influences on a Project

No project can be successfully accomplished without stakeholders and their management. It is a critical and integral part of any plan that has the only aim – to achieve results and deliverables that were set from the very beginning. A special term – project stakeholder management - exists to describe the process of dealing with…

Andrew Stepanov
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August 11, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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GanttPRO Wins 2017 Project Management Software Awards

GanttPRO was just granted not one, but two industry accolades, thanks to one of the leading B2B software review platforms. FinancesOnline recognized our Gantt chart tool with the 2017 Great User Experience Award and Rising Star Award for its intuitive visualization feature and highly useful platform for projects with multiple teams. The awards are the result…

Andrew Stepanov
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July 4, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 1 minute
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JIRA as a Project Management Tool

It is hard to meet anyone who works in IT-sphere and hasn’t heard a word about JIRA - specialized project management software. This very popular and highly customizable tool helps teams to better and more efficiently work on projects. So, it serves as a team project management software. This article is the continuation of JIRA…

Andrew Stepanov
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June 28, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
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6 Best Gantt Chart JIRA Plugins in 2022

Software developers enjoy using JIRA software for their projects. It has a lot of advantages for creating and planning all steps of product development. But at the same time, there are some issues that this powerful software lacks. The first that comes to my mind is Gantt charts. JIRA does not have a built-in Gantt…

Andrew Stepanov
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January 14, 2022
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Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
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10 JIRA Plugins for More Efficient Project Management

If you are a software developer, it is highly likely that you used or are using JIRA Software. As JIRA developers state, it is number 1 software development tool used by agile teams. We bet you won’t argue that. JIRA is a very powerful tool that makes work process simpler and more effective. It helps…

Andrew Stepanov
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January 13, 2022
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Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
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11 Free and Discounted Software for Nonprofit Organizations

Doing good for other people deserves a lot of praise, respect and simply warm words. Especially when it is done on the organization scale. Those organizations that are called nonprofit do not set goals to make money, but to help people in need. Nonprofit organizations are like businesses in some way. They also have to…

Andrew Stepanov
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June 16, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
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How to Make a Gantt Chart in Excel

You hardly meet someone who never heard about Microsoft Office and Microsoft Excel in particular. This office suite includes a variety of useful apps for convenient day-to-day work. Thousands of people use it every day with different aims be it something for your office needs or at home. Excel is very popular software presented in…

Andrew Stepanov
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March 12, 2021
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Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
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