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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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: 17 minutes
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How to Be More Productive at Work: 15 Smart Tips

Productivity is a quality that we cherish and strive to improve. Every person has own different way of being productive and sometimes even the simplest things and obscure details can help us to make progress in this direction. Here you can find some practical tips from GanttPRO - online project management tool that can help to…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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August 15, 2016
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
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Guide to Building a Super Team: Project Team Roles and Responsibilities

We have already discussed project management methodologies that can help you to improve your team's results. In this article, we want to share with you some tips and tricks how to organize your project team and delegate roles and responsibilities that, we hope, will help you with your hard but usually invisible mission of project…

Alexandra Drebezova
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June 9, 2016
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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How to Make a Gantt Chart in GanttPRO: Step-by-Step Tutorial

Have you decided to manage your project with a special tool, but you still don’t know which one to choose? We introduce you GanttPRO online Gantt chart generator – an effective way to manage projects of different complexity. Here is the Gantt chart tutorial with 12 easy to understand and follow steps to create your…

GanttPRO Team
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March 22, 2024
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Estimated reading time: 14 minutes
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