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.

12 Tips to Create an Actionable Weekly Work Plan

A weekly work plan may contain dozens of tasks. However, a typical work week is only five days, so you can feel upset that this time period is too short. When it comes to defining the most important time management processes, planning and scheduling are what should be mentioned anyway. Whether you utilize a paper…

How to Manage Project Delays: 10 Really Working Tips for Efficient Managers

If everything goes according to a plan, it means that you are living in an ideal world. However, we plan, God laughs.  Let’s notice: collapses and failures occur. Project delays do also happen. Many projects finish late. Is it easy to catch the reason and understand how to avoid problems with schedules and deadlines in project…

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…

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:…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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