Slack has quickly owned the communication space. Whether you’re working in an office or remotely, chances are you’re connecting with Slack. But this popular app is more than a tool for chatting. Slack task management is its stealth feature. You…
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Tasks are the building blocks of your work and your projects. You need to manage them in order to manage work at large. The problem is, it’s easy to get overwhelmed in day-to-day tasks. That’s why you need good task…
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Productivity begins with a to-do list. It’s the first step toward organizing your work and getting it done. To-do lists are essentially a repository of tasks, but they can be much more than that, especially if you’re using a to-do…
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Task prioritization is a powerful tool when executing a project. There are so many different tasks it can look at if your work-life balance is tilting towards never having any time off. But project managers understand that applying task management…
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Resource optimization is key to delivering a successful project. Resources, of course, are anything used to execute the project, including human resources and non-human resources. Resource management techniques keep a project on schedule. To have the right resources at the…
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Excel spreadsheet templates are a great tool to track the costs, time and performance of your team. We’ve collected ProjectManager’s 15 best Excel spreadsheet templates for tracking that you can download and use for free. 1. Dashboard Template A dashboard…
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People often think of productivity on an individual scale: how can I be more productive? But most of us work for organizations, and if the organization isn’t productive, then you can’t be productive either. Can there really be a magic…
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Workload management is a critical part of executing any project; projects are executed by people and as a project manager, you must ensure that your team’s workload is balanced. Project teams look to project managers to clarify what they should…
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Product management is a way to organize the development, position and pricing of your product. It helps you manage every step of the process that sees your product go from concept to market. As you might imagine, having project management…
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IT projects are unique. IT teams plan hardware and software installations, upgrades and rollouts, and the tools they use are specific to working with infrastructure, information systems and computers. These IT project management templates are essential to get those jobs…
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If there’s one thing you can be certain of when managing a project, it’s change. If only you knew ahead of time what those issues would be, you could better address them. Although it’s impossible to predict the future, with…
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Businesses need all the help they can get. These 15 free Word and Excel templates for business help with everything from cost-benefit analysis to timesheets. Business templates are a great way to work consistently and not have to reinvent the…
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More likely than not, you’ve created an action item without realizing it. If you’ve ever written a to-do list, you’ve made yourself a set of action items—errands to run, household chores to complete, people to contact, etc. In project management,…
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