Alan Parker Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Introduction The Monitoring & Controlling phase is about keeping an eye on progress and actively adjusting strategies and actions to align with project goals. Monitoring & Controlling helps project managers address potential risks proactively, manage changes, and ensure that the project adheres to its schedule and budget.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 28, 2024

In this blog, we’ll explain how to create a timeline in PowerPoint. Unfortunately, PowerPoint wasn’t designed for project management and lacks the project planning, scheduling and monitoring features that specialized software such as ProjectManager can offer. Why Make a Timeline in PowerPoint? Download File 1.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 26, 2024

Define the Desired Future State The future state is how the change will impact the various aspects of the organization or project. Describe the Proposed Change With the current and future state of the operations mapped out, it’s time to define the change that is being proposed and its scope.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 23, 2024

To better understand a client brief, first, let’s define the term and identify who is responsible for creating one. Describe the Overall Purpose of the Project First, understand what the client wants by defining the project’s purpose. A lot of similar project documentation is also used, though some have different names.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 14, 2024

Executing a plan, whether a project or a larger organizational strategy, is pointless without monitoring its progress and performance. These dashboards can identify trends, monitor progress and allow for data-driven decision making. Manufacturing KPI Dashboard: This KPI dashboard helps manufacturers monitor and review production.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 7, 2024

General contractors strive to maintain each job’s profit margin, so it makes sense that the construction project will be monitored closely to ensure it’s progressing as planned. A WIP report, an abbreviation of a work-in-progress report, is the tool general contractors use to monitor costs. Learn more What Is a WIP Report?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 6, 2024

Planning, scheduling, monitoring and controlling are all key elements of project management that work to ensure the time spent and progress made over the life cycle of the project is as efficient as possible. It can be a monthly work schedule for longer projects with clearly defined tasks and deliverables.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Before we get into framework processes and phases, let’s more fully define the meaning of ITSM and why it’s important. Over the course of this blog, we’ll discuss how ITSM is implemented, managed and delivered to meet the needs of an organization and how project management software can help facilitate those processes.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 30, 2024

Monitor Resource Utilization ProjectManager’s kanban board syncs with other tools that allow you to monitor your resource availability and utilization throughout your projects. You can also define how many tasks you’d like to be created. Here are some of its main features. Here are some of them.

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Resource Guru

APRIL 13, 2023

Monitoring and controlling a project is an essential part of any successful project process. So come with us as we go down the rabbit hole of monitoring and controlling, and show you just how important it really is. In this article, we’ll cover: What is monitoring and controlling in project management?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Using GanttProject allows IT and other project management professionals to plan and oversee projects by defining tasks, setting dependencies, allocating resources and monitoring timelines. Time Tracking: Monitor time spent on tasks against the planned duration. Progress tracking is available on the Gantt chart.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 16, 2024

In this blog, we’ll go through each step needed to create a timeline in Excel and explain the advantages and disadvantages of doing so. Use ProjectManager’s Gantt chart to plan projects, define phases, link tasks, build a WBS, set a baseline and link all four types of task dependencies. Here are some of them.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Project managers monitor resource rates and analyze resource utilization to make informed decisions on balancing workload to keep teams working at capacity, address shortages to ensure that resources are available when and where they’re needed and enhance efficiency. Our software gives project managers this data in real time.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2024

To help with this process, we’ll define resource requirements and link to a free resource plan template. Define Your Project Scope The first step is to understand the scope of your project. Write a Scope of Work The scope of work is a project document that defines all the work that’s done over the project’s life cycle.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 17, 2024

This is a major part of the project plan as it defines their importance and influence on the project. Stakeholder Register Example Let’s imagine a project and how a stakeholder is defined and dealt with throughout its life cycle. This will also define how each stakeholder is dealt with throughout the project.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

Now that we’ve determined what a project is, we can define project management as a discipline. While there are several project management roles within a project team, the project manager is usually in charge of overseeing the process of planning, executing and monitoring projects from start to finish. What Is Project Management?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Create a Strategic Roadmap Once you’ve defined your strategic goal, you’ll next need to create a strategic roadmap to get you there. Manage Your Team’s Workload As you execute the project or projects under the care of the organization you must monitor not just progress but also performance. But there’s more.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 1, 2024

Assign tasks to your team members, track their progress and monitor project costs in real time. For other teams or even individuals, they might use kanban more loosely to order tasks in interesting new ways to help the team storyboard new features, ideate on products, define new categories for priorities, or arrange items by theme or color.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A service level agreement, often abbreviated as SLA, is used in IT and professional services to define what a vendor is expected to do. As noted, a service level agreement is used to define the level of service that a customer expects from a supplier. Therefore, to better understand what an SLA is, we’ll define the three types below.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Successful CEOs Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy define execution in their book Executive: The Discipline of Getting Things Done : “Execution is a specific set of behaviors and techniques that companies need to master in order to have a competitive advantage. That’s why monitoring and tracking during execution is so important.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 10, 2021

A project baseline can be defined as an approved project plan with or without any approved changes. All of them must be approved by key stakeholders and monitored regularly to ensure that the project is kept on track: problems with one of the types can affect the other ones or even the project outcome if no necessary actions are taken.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 16, 2024

At this point, the manager will begin to allocate work hours to each team member and, as they execute those tasks, monitor the resource utilization rate and costs. It helps define who does what in the project and establishes boundaries, which is what makes it a useful resource management template.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 9, 2024

There are many different types of construction resources beyond labor and we’ll define them as well as the process for construction resource management. This is also used as an agreement or contract between all parties involved and is going to help define the resource requirements for the project.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 11, 2024

After defining warehouse management and its importance, we’ll focus on its key areas and what the operation life cycle looks like. Some of those processes, such as managing inventory, tracking quantities, monitoring expiration dates and organizing products based on customer demand fall under inventory management.

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NimbleWork

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Hence, the way they need to be “proactively” tracked and monitored needs to evolve! In this blog, we focus on the latter. The post Improve Project Outcomes: How to Define and Track Project Health? Sometimes, they may need intervention when things are not going well. Sign up for a Free trial and experience these firsthand.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 16, 2024

We’ll get to that in a moment as well as define project pipeline management. Work in Progress As the project moves into the execution, monitoring and controlling phase, you’ll need to keep track of the progress and performance of your team to make sure that the project is on schedule and staying within the budget.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Before getting to the transition plan, let’s define transition planning. Download Excel File How to Make a Transition Plan To create a transition plan, start by defining the vision. Define Goals and Make an Action Plan To create a timeline, one must first have tasks and those tasks come from the steps that are taken to achieve a goal.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 9, 2024

That is, define what the communication should accomplish. These communication requirements in terms of frequency must be defined to better manage stakeholders over the life cycle of the change. Define a Communication Schedule Finally, the communication schedule must be set. What is the objective of the plan?

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2024

The best way to respond to resistance to change is by having a well-defined plan that gets one from where they are to where they want to be. To best manage and overcome resistance to change, the first step is to define the type of resistance to change one is dealing with. Here are some common types of resistance to change.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 27, 2024

Creates production orders from sales orders, monitors and manages performance and schedules and pre-assigns lot and serial numbers. It helps to improve scheduling , costs and material planning with accurate and well-defined bill of materials. Use ProjectManager to schedule, monitor, manage resources, track costs and workload.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 1, 2024

In this blog, we’ll show you how to make a Gantt chart in Asana and we’ll do an in-depth analysis of its features, benefits and limitations. Set Baselines to Compare Planned vs. Actual Effort With Real-Time Progress Shading It’s critical to monitor your baseline if you want to stay on schedule and within your budget.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 4, 2024

To find out, let’s define what Microsoft Lists is, look at its features and explore how to use MS Lists. The users can then define who the alert goes to, whether it is sent by email or text and when the user wants to be alerted. Let’s look at some recent blog posts that review Microsoft products and whether they live up to the hype.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Link Task Dependencies As defined above, task dependencies refer to a task that can’t be completed or started until another task has been completed or started. In the image below, a popup window allows users to link the dependent tasks and define the type of dependency it is and the lag, which means the delay period between dependent tasks.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Let’s look at business process improvement (BPI), define it, explore strategies and then note the business and project management tools that can help implement and analyze progress in your company. It tracks and monitors key performance indicators (KPIs) to help managers make data-driven decisions.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 24, 2024

For example, it helps with selecting, defining and delivering projects. This is done by a variety of skills and techniques, led by a project manager and includes defining project scope, identifying deliverables, managing risks and effective communication across teams. Who Oversees Organizational Project Management?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’re not familiar with a balanced scorecard, we’ll define the term and show the four perspectives it tracks as well as explain what should be included in a balanced scorecard. Let’s define the four balanced scorecard perspectives. You have to define where you want to be over one year, two years, etc.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

That’s because the project teams involved with these successful projects follow a defined and repeatable process, which mitigates risk and achieves objectives. Rather, it’s a team effort guided by standardized processes, well-defined roles and responsibilities and collaboration. Let’s define each of these five stages.

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