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How to Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in Excel: a Detailed Guide [Alternative Included]

A work breakdown structure (WBS) is a fundamental project management tool that represents a hierarchical decomposition of projects. It helps to break down complex activities into more manageable parts with the aim to manage, evaluate, and assign them to anyone in a team. It is easy to create a WBS in Excel, as this tool…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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September 9, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
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5 Effective Roadmap Examples [Plus Available Templates]

Before you create your own roadmap, it’s a good idea to check out some reliable roadmap examples to understand what you need. A well-planned timeline offers a single point of reference for anyone involved in the project to understand the goals that drive it. Product and project managers rely on this visualization tool to give…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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September 9, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
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7 Product Roadmap Examples to Inspire Your Team

Managers all over the world are looking for the best product roadmap examples to improve their planning skills. Often, they have to build timelines from scratch without initial experience in planning. But if they know how to create a project roadmap, it will be easier to visualize their strategic ideas and tasks on an online…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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September 9, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
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Benefits of Gantt Charts: Project Managers Share Their Experience

We can’t ignore the rapidly increasing role of project planning tools in the project-oriented world we already live in. The thing is that this world relies on different project management methodologies, Agile and Waterfall are just a few of them. In addition, each methodology relies on a certain tool or a set of tools. For…

Andrew Stepanov
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September 9, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
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6 Best Gantt Chart JIRA Plugins in 2025

JIRA has a lot of advantages for creating and planning all steps of product development. Some of its features look great, while others seem weak or need significant improvements. What about the Gantt chart feature? This article highlights the essential aspects of how the popular software provides its users with the planning functionality with the…

Andrew Stepanov
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September 9, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
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Work Breakdown Structure Examples (WBS) that You Can Use as References in 2025

The concept of a work breakdown structure (WBS) is widely used to represent the project’s scope and deliverables in a hierarchical way.  Sometimes the structure may seem confusing for beginners who are new to project management. Therefore it’s crucial for any project manager to always have a reliable work breakdown structure example at hand. In…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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September 6, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 14 minutes
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14 Project Milestones Examples

The arsenal of project management tools looks incomplete without milestones. This vital tool helps project teams to identify what must be done to achieve their goals and boost their productivity.  Having project milestones examples at hand stimulates the right synergy among your team and ensures the desired project outcomes. Below you’ll find the examples of…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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September 6, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
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Impressive List of Timeline Examples with Potential Tools to Build Them

One of the best ways to visualize any undertaking is to create a timeline. This type of graphical visualization helps to communicate stories and showcase processes by arranging a chain of events in chronological order.  If you need more information on it, refer to the articles about project timeline and timeline makers.  There are many…

Andrew Stepanov
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September 6, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 13 minutes
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