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Guides, tutorials, tips, and useful educational materials to improve your professional skills in planning, scheduling, project management, and other related areas.

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…

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…

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…

How to Make a Gantt Chart in PowerPoint

Whether you manage a project or are just involved in its implementation, you might have probably heard about or used a Gantt chart, a bar chart that visually represents a project. A Gantt chart is usually applied in project management for task scheduling, identifying milestones, keeping track of progress and deadlines, and other similar purposes.…

How to Make a Gantt Chart in Microsoft Project

A Gantt chart is a well-known bar chart and an excellent project management tool used to work with tasks, develop project plans, schedule, and track progress. This chart gives you a clear visual image in a single document of all the tasks in the project, their sequence on a timeline, milestones, their start and end…

How to Make a Gantt Chart in Word

To make a Gantt chart people usually resort to different tools. Among them, for instance, are popular Microsoft tools. We have already explained how to create a Gantt chart in Excel, MS Project, Google Sheets, and PowerPoint in our previous articles. However, it may be the case that you are used to working in Word…

How to Boost Productivity with GanttPRO: MS Teams Integration

Do you use Microsoft Teams as your core collaboration and communication solution? No wonder if you do: at the end of 2020, over 115 million people used the software every day for various reasons. Among the top ones are chatting, video conferencing, calling, and meetings. In other words, teams all over the world need to…

How to Efficiently Plan Ecommerce Business: Practical Tips that Work

With the ever-growing opportunities provided for online business owners in this digital age, careful management is more important than ever. Ecommerce is a competitive field and there is increased pressure for companies trying to succeed in this area, so mastering project management is invaluable in your success. An ecommerce business is essentially a project in…

Beatrix Potter
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February 25, 2020
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