Project schedule management
Making Gantt charts in Excel [free Excel Gantt chart...
Gantt charts are a project manager’s bread and butter. They indicate who’s working on which tasks, dates and durations, crossovers or delays, and everything in...
How to create an effective project schedule in 6 easy...
It’s no secret that projects of all sizes include many stages and even more tasks and deliverables. If so much as a single element is delayed, it can lead to a...
16 top Gantt chart software
Gantt charts are a project management classic. And thanks to the advent of customizable software and thousands of Gantt chart templates, they’ve gained a heap of...
Best timeline software: free and paid
Most project managers today use software for project planning. And a key feature that most project planning tools offer is the timeline. Timeline’s are great for...
How to use a progress tracker to optimize efficiency
These days, when going somewhere new, almost everyone will use GPS on their phone to stay on track. You can easily confirm where you are at any moment, as well as how...
Project status report template
But with so many tasks, milestones, and other data to process, status reporting can feel like a daunting task, at least without a status report template. So the...
What does a project planner do?
Benjamin Franklin once said, “if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” There’s no doubt that planning is a crucial step in every project, no...
Free Gantt chart: should you consider one?
Project managers are pretty divided when it comes to Gantt charts. A recent survey stated that 38% of respondents tend to ignore the Gantt chart feature of their project...
A simple guide to creating a Gantt chart in Excel, and...
If you’re like most project managers, you frequently find yourself in a deep Excel hole, frantically looking for a way out. Spreadsheets are fantastic for a whole...
Benefits of a project management dashboard
How can one contextualize what a project management dashboard or PM dashboard is? One could liken it to Captain Kirk’s all-knowing computer on Star Trek — if this is...
A complete guide to project monitoring, project...
If keeping projects on track was easy, there wouldn’t be a whole field of project management dedicated to it. Every project needs to have a system in place to monitor...
Understanding critical paths in project management
A critical path is a method used by project managers to prioritize tasks and deliver a project on time. But unlike most project management concepts, the title of this...
What is fast tracking in project management?
It’s happened to all of us: we’ve worked tirelessly on a project, but still missed the deadline. Maybe you had too much on your plate, or maybe you underestimated...
3 project tracking strategies for efficiency
Project failure is much easier when you are running several initiatives and don’t have a way to track spending and resources. That’s where project tracking...
Project Scheduling 101
In the realm of project management priorities, project scheduling makes the top of the list. With so many moving parts from specific tasks and resources required to...
Gantt charts explained
A Gantt chart is a horizontal bar chart that shows a project’s planned schedule and its tasks or events over time. Each bar in the Gantt chart represents a task, while...