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

How to Make a Gantt Chart in Word

To make a Gantt chart people usually resort to different tools. Among them, for instance, are popular Microsoft tools. We have already explained how to create a Gantt chart in Excel, MS Project, and PowerPoint in our previous articles. However, it may be the case that you are used to working in Word and would…

How to Allocate Resources: Methods that Help Achieve Your Business Goals

If you work with projects, you most likely know how resource management is significant regardless of professional area. Wellington's research (2019) said that 60% of project professionals name poor resource allocation as a fundamental problem in project management (PM). How to allocate resources appropriately to facilitate the workflow and make it maximally convenient? You will…

How to Become a Project Manager without Experience

The Project Manager is the link between the customer and the client or the team and stakeholders. The specific list of competencies depends on the industry, organization, types of projects, and even types of teams. However, one thing is invariable – a project manager provides work efficiency. If you are punctual, think analytically, know how…

How to Make a Gantt Chart in PowerPoint

Whether you manage a project or are just involved in its implementation, you might have probably heard about or used a Gantt chart, a bar chart that visually represents a project. A Gantt chart is usually applied in project management for task scheduling, identifying milestones, keeping track of progress and deadlines, and other similar purposes.…

How to Boost Productivity with GanttPRO: Slack Integration

Do you want to optimize processes, increase the productivity of your team, and not waste time switching between tools? We have a solution. It will help you work in two platforms at the same time – in the messenger and online project management tool. Moreover, your working processes will be synchronized. Just a few weeks…

How to Create a Winning Project Roadmap: Tips and Tricks for Various Teams

A project roadmap is an essential and widely used PM tool for keeping updated all project participants from team members to stakeholders and other third parties. How to create a strong project roadmap that will ensure everyone is on the same page and have mutual key objectives to achieve? Find out in our article. Contents:…

7 Tips on Choosing the Best Resource Management Software for Your Business in 2023

Resource management is a primary objective in guaranteeing a successful project delivery. Why is resource management important? The answer is simple: to secure an organized pipeline, it’s vital to oversee the assets that you have on hand so you can make the most out of them, achieve optimum efficiency, and reduce wasted time. To successfully…

How to open an MPP file online without MS Project

Microsoft Project is one of the most popular and widespread project management software. The software allows you to plan projects, assign tasks, manage resources and workflows, create reports, and do many other things. Nevertheless, recent GetApp's surveys showed that almost 60% of project managers are ready to try some new software in 2020. The thing…

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