How to Make a Gantt Chart in Excel: Step-by-Step Tutorial [Alternative Included]

Thousands of people use Microsoft Excel every day for office or personal needs. However, many users mistakenly believe that Excel is only for creating tables, not realizing its capacity to perform numerous operations. For instance, many project teams are unaware of how to make a Gantt chart in Excel. In this guide, we describe detailed…

Andrew Stepanov
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September 23, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 16 minutes
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The Ultimate Guide to Gantt Charts: Everything about the Tool You Can’t Ignore for Project Planning

A Gantt chart is a great tool for task management, project planning, scheduling, and progress tracking. In case you have questions about these diagrams, here is the complete guide to Gantt charts that covers most of them. What is a Gantt chart? The history of a Gantt chart. What is a Gantt chart used for?…

Andrew Stepanov
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September 23, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 15 minutes
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Identifying the Best Basecamp Gantt Chart Solution for Your Projects

A Basecamp Gantt chart is the topic that worries many professionals involved in project management. If you’ve decided to read this article, then it is vital to you as well. Basecamp rocks. Let's say, it is one of the pioneers in the online productivity application market. It is used by individuals and businesses. According to…

Andrew Stepanov
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September 23, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
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How to Open MS Project

The first questions you have when you start working in MS Project are how to open Microsoft Project files and how to open mpp files without MS Project. Luckily, both these questions have very clear answers. Moreover, these issues are very easy to solve. From this Microsoft Project tutorial, you’ll learn how to open Microsoft…

Andrew Stepanov
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September 23, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
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How to Export Microsoft Project

Projects require constant control and monitoring by a project manager. However, there are cases that happen quite often when a third party, say, a stakeholder needs to check your chart; or you need to showcase your plan and include it in your presentation; or you simply need a quick access to a printable version of…

Andrew Stepanov
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September 20, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 4 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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September 20, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
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How to Set Working Days in Microsoft Project

Resources are one of the most critical issues in project management. They are units that help managers and teams to properly allocate tasks, track time and workload, and complete projects in a timely manner. In this context, no one will be able to manage and control performance without calendars. Setting one common calendar for all…

Andrew Stepanov
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September 20, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
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What is Lean Project Management? Its Definition, Principles, and Methodology

It’s difficult to find a project where no problems occur. There will always be issues with tasks, deadlines, and assignees. No one and nothing will secure your plans from poor results. To succeed and complete a project, every manager should have diversified knowledge in many spheres. And of course, it concerns methodologies. Among them are…

Andrew Stepanov
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September 16, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
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