How-tos and guides

Guides, tutorials, tips, and useful educational materials to improve your professional skills in planning, scheduling, project management, and other related areas.

12 Tips to Create an Actionable Weekly Work Plan

A weekly work plan may contain dozens of tasks. However, a typical work week is only five days, so you can feel upset that this time period is too short. When it comes to defining the most important time management processes, planning and scheduling are what should be mentioned anyway. Whether you utilize a paper…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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August 15, 2022
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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
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How to Create a Work Plan for a Project [Guide + Visual Examples]

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 team. When it comes to initiating a new project, one of the key goals is to be sure that everyone knows what they are doing…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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August 8, 2022
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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
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How to Improve Project Planning With an Online PERT Chart

If you intend to start a career in project management, you’ll become familiar with a PERT chart. It will help you plan projects from beginning to end.  This type of project management charts has been utilized for more than 60 years and has stood the test of time. In this article, we explore what a…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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May 4, 2022
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Estimated reading time: 15 minutes
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How to Manage Project Delays: 10 Really Working Tips for Efficient Managers

If everything goes according to a plan, it means that you are living in an ideal world. However, we plan, God laughs.  Let’s notice: collapses and failures occur. Project delays do also happen. Many projects finish late. Is it easy to catch the reason and understand how to avoid problems with schedules and deadlines in project…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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October 7, 2021
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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
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How to Present a Project

Presenting a project requires studying dozens of sources, from books and lectures to innovative methodologies. How to present a project so that your team members, stakeholders, executives, or clients say “wow!”?  It can be a challenge. But there is nothing impossible for managers who consider a project timeline presentation a part of their daily job.…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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September 13, 2021
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Estimated reading time: 13 minutes
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How to Boost Productivity with GanttPRO: MS Teams Integration

Do you use Microsoft Teams as your core collaboration and communication solution? No wonder if you do: at the end of 2020, over 115 million people used the software every day for various reasons. Among the top ones are chatting, video conferencing, calling, and meetings. In other words, teams all over the world need to…

Andrew Stepanov
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December 14, 2021
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Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
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How to Build a High Performing Team

Every business strives to meet specific standards. Managing high performing teams is one of them. 70% of companies admit that team performance matters; 30% of organizations have no strategy for creating a winning team. Effective teams are made up of highly skilled and always focused and aligned individuals. If a company can attract and hire…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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August 10, 2021
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Estimated reading time: 13 minutes
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How to Work with Different Project Views in GanttPRO: a New Header

Have you already tried the GanttPRO and Slack integration we released this March? Give it a try and you’ll love it. That was our previous huge tech update. This time, we announce one more update. And it is more focused on design combined with a few additional features. What’s new in the July 2021 release:…

Andrew Stepanov
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July 6, 2021
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Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
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