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Project Management Smart Goals for Business: Templates and Examples

What are SMART goals? SMART (S.M.A.R.T.) is an acronym formed by the first letters of words: S = Specific, M = Measurable, A = Achievable/Attainable, R = Relevant/ Realistic/ Results Focused, T = Timely/ Trackable. The acronym which is used today in the best project management books was created in November 1981 in the USA…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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September 28, 2016
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Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
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Best Project Management Books for Every Manager

Reading is one of the most helpful ways to become more qualified. Professional books can teach much better than lectures or professors. In this article, we prepared the list of books with their descriptions for you. They will be of much help in managing projects whenever you are up to it. Why is it so important…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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May 19, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 11 minutes
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5 GanttPRO Features for Successful Project Management

What is successful project management? Have you ever thought about the definition of successful project management? Every project management specialist or a person who deals with any types of projects wants to know how to become more productive at work and how to get success in project management. In fact, they have own concepts and…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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August 22, 2016
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Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
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How to Be More Productive at Work: 15 Smart Tips

Productivity is a quality that we cherish and strive to improve. Every person has own different way of being productive and sometimes even the simplest things and obscure details can help us to make progress in this direction. Here you can find some practical tips from GanttPRO - online project management tool that can help to…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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August 15, 2016
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
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Now Import a Gantt Chart From Excel to GanttPRO in a Сlick!

Here are steps you need to take to create a Gantt chart in Excel: Start from creating a project table: a task name, start date, end date, duration. After that, you need to build a standard Excel bar chart based on tasks start dates. Once done, you need to add duration data to your chart…

Alexandra Drebezova
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August 4, 2016
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Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
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The Top 20 Project Management Tools and Resources for 2016

Managing a project is like running a marathon. To show good results, get in time, and not get exhausted before the race is over you must have enough experience to plan wisely, spend the available resources reasonably and choose a project management tool that could help you with it. In both examples, the key to…

Alexandra Drebezova
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June 16, 2016
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Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
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Guide to Building a Super Team: Project Team Roles and Responsibilities

We have already discussed project management methodologies that can help you to improve your team's results. In this article, we want to share with you some tips and tricks how to organize your project team and delegate roles and responsibilities that, we hope, will help you with your hard but usually invisible mission of project…

Alexandra Drebezova
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June 9, 2016
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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Tools, Techniques, and project management methodologies

Every bright idea, despite the level of its brightness, besides the creative impulse requires cold-blooded planning. And one of the most significant results of such planning is a choice for a project management methodology and one or other project management techniques. Even the absence of clear understanding of the outcomes can be eliminated by choosing the…

Alexandra Drebezova
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May 30, 2016
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Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
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