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.

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…

Andrew Stepanov
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February 7, 2018
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Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
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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…

Andrew Stepanov
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December 27, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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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.…

Kritika Pandey
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November 23, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
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Your 2023 Guide to Project Timelines: Examples and Tools to Implement Them

Whether your project is plain or complex, you need a handy and functional timeline for high-level planning and scheduling. A project timeline ensures that your project is transparent and well-planned. It helps managers to anticipate bottlenecks and streamline workflows. Wondering how you create an effective project timeline? This post will help you get the basics…

Andrew Stepanov
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October 19, 2022
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Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
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How to Create an Asana Gantt Chart in Accessible Ways

If your workflow is not organized properly, the entire project can quickly get complicated. Here’s where a Gantt chart comes to your aid. Many tools offer a Gantt diagram, but it’s often not feature-rich and not free. An Asana Gantt chart is also a "hot topic" for the users of this tool. Some of them…

Andrew Stepanov
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March 25, 2022
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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
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How to Make a Trello Gantt Chart in 2022: Best Solutions

The first association most project teams have when they hear about Trello is a simple and easy Kanban board. Fans of this tool appreciate its handy functionality for managing tasks in various spheres. However, the default views and visualizations in Trello aren’t suited to every project. Managers often want to get a better way to…

Andrew Stepanov
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April 2, 2022
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Estimated reading time: 10 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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How to Create a Project Plan in 7 Steps

Every process, notion, thing, etc., start from something. That moment began not now, days or years ago, and things looked differently – not like they do now. Project management is not an exception. Being a complex chain of tasks and processes, it should have the first step where everything begins. This step is project plan…

Andrew Stepanov
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August 12, 2021
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Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
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