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12 Free Project Planning Templates for Excel and Word

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Project planning is one of the first and most important aspects of project management. Using project planning templates can help you schedule tasks, estimate budgets and allocate resources. Download one or all and get your next project started right. But using project planning templates is, at best, only a starting point.

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Importance of Scenario Planning and Analysis in Business

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By using regular and consistent scenario planning, organizations can better allocate resources successfully, mitigate risk and decrease production costs. This also applies to projects, which can use scenario planning to help them respond to changes in time, costs and scope.

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Tableau Gantt Chart: A How-to Guide With Pros, Cons & Alternatives

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The result will be a Gantt chart diagram that shows your project schedule and basic details such as project task names, duration and due dates. Unfortunately, if you make a Gantt chart in Tableau, you won’t be able to use any of the project management features you’d find in more powerful Gantt chart software.

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Notion Gantt Chart: Key Features, Pros and Cons

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Notion is work management software that helps teams from across industries such as product development, engineering or marketing to facilitate team communication, manage tasks and create simple project timelines. While Notion has project management features, is there a Notion Gantt chart? We’ll get to that in a moment.

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Project Monitoring and Control: Tools & Steps

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Project managers will closely track the progress and performance of the project, review project status, identify potential problems and implement corrective actions when required to keep the project on schedule and within budget. Unlike lightweight software, there’s no time-consuming setup necessary.

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How to Make a Contractor Payment Schedule in Construction (Template Included)

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This contractor payment schedule is defined in the construction contract and sets pay over regular intervals across the project schedule. This sets clear payment terms for the contractor and reduces the risk of them receiving late payments or even no payment at all. The contract type can impact the construction payment schedule.

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7 Tips on Reducing Project Costs

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Reduction of project costs and at least avoiding significant cost overrun is one of the high priority tasks for a project manager. However, it usually becomes challenging due to a great number of factors: underestimation of project costs, uncontrolled changes, poor resource allocation, etc.