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 an Asana Gantt Chart in Accessible Ways

If your workflow is not organized properly, the entire project can quickly get complicated. Here’s where a Gantt chart comes to your aid. Many tools offer a Gantt diagram, but it’s often not feature-rich and not free. An Asana Gantt chart is also a "hot topic" for the users of this tool. Some of them…

Andrew Stepanov
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March 18, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
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How Stakeholder Management Influences on a Project

No project can be successfully accomplished without stakeholders and their management. It is a critical and integral part of any plan that has the only aim – to achieve results and deliverables that were set from the very beginning. A special term – project stakeholder management - exists to describe the process of dealing with…

Andrew Stepanov
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August 11, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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10 Tips for Successful Project Management

Among the other things that should be remembered by successful project management team, there is the fact that sometimes there’s nobody who manages the manager. Thus, all taken decisions should be made following by deep base of knowledge and thorough understanding of this job. Here we provide some tips along with a useful project management…

Andrew Stepanov
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April 28, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
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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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March 15, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
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How to Successfully Manage Projects with Timely Created Project Scope Statements

The world we live in is not chaotic. To function properly, it applies certain rules to a great variety of things and systems. And in any system, there is a structure without which it won’t exist as an ordered set. Project management is definitely a complicated structure where its elements should exist in order and…

Andrew Stepanov
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March 30, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
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How to Win the Battle Against Project Scope Creep?

“You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.” Lewis Carroll There is no magic in project management. Any small problem can become a serious consequence for any skilled manager. Even if you are fluent in one of the business…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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February 20, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
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How to Solve Business Issues With the Help of CATWOE Analysis?

What is the global aim of design methods? We suppose it to be the problem-solving. But before solving any problem it's useful and sometimes crucial to explore the problem roots and all the factors that relate to it. Knowing the problem, stakeholders can make a decision how to take further actions. In this article, we'd…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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January 20, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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What is a Work Breakdown Structure and How to Improve Project Management with a WBS?

Breaking tasks into smaller and manageable portions makes the workflow much easier. This is one of the enduring truths of project management. A work breakdown structure (WBS) is what helps managers break down each step of their projects and consider all tasks to achieve the final results.  This article is about a WBS, its role…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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March 22, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 21 minutes
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