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.

The Ultimate Guide to Gantt Charts: Everything about the Tool You Can’t Ignore for Project Planning

A Gantt chart is a great tool for task management, project planning, scheduling, and progress tracking. In case you have questions about these diagrams, here is the complete guide to Gantt charts that covers most of them. What is a Gantt chart? The history of a Gantt chart. What is a Gantt chart used for?…

Andrew Stepanov
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March 15, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 15 minutes
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Just Coach It! 10 Tips on How to Motivate Your Team after Project Failure

In the current work environment, most places delegate work with the concept of teams. Today, the teams form the framework for building a strong structure for not only a project but the firm itself. It is unavoidable that there might be a few circumstances when your team comes face to face with failure. Being a…

Michelle Brooks
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May 24, 2019
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
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How to Build Great Project Leaders

Good leadership is an integral part of any functional organization. The leader should be someone with a clear vision, outstanding organizational skills, and drive. They are not only responsible for the tasks at hand, but also the people working on a particular project. When building a great project leader, it’s important to keep certain personality…

Gabriela Julia
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January 10, 2019
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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How to Always Have Projects at Hand with GanttPRO: Modified Export and Improved Application Speed

Online project planning tools allow managers and teams to have 24/7 access to their projects. What could be better? Planning, management, and collaboration happen from any place anytime. But what if we need to showcase our Gantt chart to stakeholders, clients or include in a presentation? This is where the Export feature takes the stage.…

Andrew Stepanov
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October 1, 2018
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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How to Start a Lean Startup

If you have a business idea, then you must be wondering how to start your company. You probably heard of the lean startup already. It’s something that many decide to use as a method for starting a business. Running a startup is always a risky business and the success depends on many factors. After all,…

David Koller
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June 18, 2018
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
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How to Create a Project Timeline and Make it Your Strategic Ally

Projects can’t exist without timelines. There is no way to accomplish work without having a clear understanding of start and end dates. Therefore, project managers at the earliest stages of their career should know how to create a project timeline. How should they make it with benefits and maximum effect? It depends on a carefully…

Andrew Stepanov
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March 22, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
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How to Improve Your Team Efficiency and Get Results

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. Stephen King Working on a project is a difficult challenge. Working on a project together with a team is much more challenging due to a diversity of character traits, experience, motivation, etc. There always will be clashes in…

Andrew Stepanov
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December 27, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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How to Effectively Evaluate Project Management Methodologies for Your Business

As a project manager, you have a tough call of duty. You have to find a way to “coordinate all the things” – establish what goes where, build a high-performing team and ensure that all the stakeholders’ needs are met. But, it takes a highly skilled leader to steer a project from inception to conclusion.…

Kritika Pandey
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November 23, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
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