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 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 Create a Winning Project Roadmap: Tips and Tricks for Various Teams

A project roadmap is an essential and widely used PM tool for keeping updated all project participants from team members to stakeholders and other third parties.  How to create a strong project roadmap that will ensure everyone is on the same page and have mutual key objectives to achieve? Find out in our article. Contents:…

GanttPRO Team
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September 16, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
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How to Create a Work Plan for a Project [Guide + Visual Examples]

Striving to improve your project management skills, you should clearly know how to create a work plan for a project with ease. Poor planning can be a nightmare for any team. When it comes to initiating a new project, one of the key goals is to be sure that everyone knows what they are doing…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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September 13, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
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How to Present a Project: 18-Step Formula for Purpose-Driven Teams

Presenting a project requires studying dozens of sources, from books and lectures to innovative methodologies. How to present a project so that your team members, stakeholders, executives, or clients say “wow!”?  It can be a challenge. But there is nothing impossible for managers who consider a project timeline presentation a part of their daily job.…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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September 13, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 13 minutes
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Your 2025 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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September 9, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
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How to Compose an Effective Construction Scope of Work: 8 Steps and Example

A construction scope of work (SoW) typically serves as a reliable guide for managing all phases of the construction project lifecycle. This strategic document determines the activities needed to be done in a clear manner. It may contain only a few pages long, but the information it offers is essential to the entire success of…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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September 9, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 12 minutes
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How to Make a Trello Gantt Chart in 2025: 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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September 9, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 12 minutes
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How to open an MPP file online without MS Project

Microsoft Project is one of the most popular and widespread project management software. The software allows you to plan projects, assign tasks, manage resources and workflows, create reports, and do many other things. Nevertheless, recent GetApp's surveys showed that almost 60% of project managers are ready to try some new software. The thing is that…

GanttPRO Team
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September 9, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
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