GanttProject is an open-source project management software that offers a free version of the popular Gantt chart tool for scheduling and managing projects. Visit the GanttProject website and you might be skeptical; it looks like a fake site set up…
Read More
The project design phase is the first step when planning a project. It sets the stage for the project initiation and project planning phase and important documents like the project charter and project plan. What Is Project Design? Project design…
Read More
ProjectLibre is open-source project management software attractive to IT professionals due to its cost-effective solution. It’s an alternative to commercial project management software, but is it better? That depends. The only way to find out the value of ProjectLibre is…
Read More
Lean management originated in Japan where it grew out of the Toyota Production System. Today, lean manufacturing is widely used in industries such as project management, software development, construction and more. Lean principles stem from the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI),…
Read More
All projects have risks, but not all risks are the same. Many potential risks can affect a project plan and you need to have a risk management process in place to manage them. This risk management process consists of risk…
Read More
Project scheduling can be hard, but software can make it more manageable. If you’re not quite ready to make the leap to an online project scheduling software, though, then project scheduling templates for Excel can be a decent substitute to…
Read More
A Microsoft Project plan file, or an MPP file, is a file format that’s exclusive to Microsoft Project. This means users need to purchase Microsoft Project to open them. Otherwise, using and more importantly, sharing MS Project files, will cause…
Read More
Project management professionals are looking for the best way to deliver their projects. That leads them to products like OpenProject. It’s a Microsoft Project alternative that’s free, less complicated and fosters collaboration. It’s especially popular in the IT community. Why?…
Read More
Plan all you want. But once that project or business plan is being executed, you’ll need a gap analysis to assess whether you’re meeting the requirements or you could be in trouble. As its name suggests, the gap analysis is a…
Read More
Microsoft has multiple project management tools and deciding which is the right one can be hard. They’re all similar, expensive and complicated to use. Microsoft Project for the web bills itself as the more collaborative version of Microsoft’s project management…
Read More
If you’ve worked with Microsoft Project before, then you are familiar with its powerful project planning capabilities but also its many, well… frustrations. For one thing, it’s hard to share MPP files, which are too large for email and only…
Read More
Here’s the good news: an executive summary is short. It’s part of a larger document like a business plan, business case or project proposal and, as the name implies, summarizes the longer report. Here’s the bad news: it’s a critical…
Read More
Project management professionals know the good, bad and ugly of Microsoft Project Server. On the one hand, it has powerful project management capabilities, but on the other hand, Microsoft Server can be expensive, difficult to use and not collaborative. However,…
Read More
