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Create a Gantt chart Using Microsoft Excel

October 15th, 2011 No comments

Chart is a helpful tool for the monitoring a whole project progress. Gantt chart looks like a bar chart, it represents whole schedule of the project. By using Gantt chart it is easy to know about the start and end time of each sub task in a project.

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How to fine tune your project schedule

October 15th, 2011 No comments

For the management of the large projects, scheduling of the project plays an important role in the smooth executing of project. Project manager face the problems when the project does not complete in the given timelines.

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How to use Critical Path Method in activity network diagram or PERT

October 15th, 2011 No comments

In a project for showing all the sub tasks, activity network diagram is an important method, which is used for displaying the timelines of different sub tasks.

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Release Planning Meeting – Discussion Points & How to make it better

October 8th, 2011 No comments

Release plan is a commitment schedule and it is important to meet this commitment both for customer & organization development project. Every release starts with the release planning meeting.

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How to Build a Successful Project Team

October 6th, 2011 No comments

Project team is a group of members, which are expert in field and perform task for the success of project. For successful project management project team plays an important role. Success or failure of the project totally depends upon the team members, who design and build the project.

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Project Management in Cloud Computing

September 27th, 2011 No comments

Indian IT industry has grown from $2 billion in export revenues in 1998 to more than $50 billion today and expected for 2020 is nearly $175 billion. Cloud computing seems to be a promising technology platform and delivery model which might accelerate the non-linear growth of today.

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How to create a work breakdown structure and its Benefits & Example

September 26th, 2011 No comments

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is an essential part of the Project Management. The Work Breakdown Structure was developed by U.S. defence establishment and is described in a Military Standard (MIL-STD) 881B.

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Best Practices of Project Management for Project Success

September 23rd, 2011 No comments

Today each organization has their own strategy to follow good management practices to achieve the goal of the project undertaken by them. It is imperative that projects are manage to win the confidence of stake holders, realize efficiency and effectiveness in all phases of the project and to improve the life cycle of the projects.

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Tips for Choosing the Right Project Management Software

September 22nd, 2011 No comments

Project is a temporary endeavour for converting ideas into the action by passing through the various stages. Project Management is a science and art by which whole the process of conversation of ideas into action is occurred in an organize way. Project Management is done at various stages like development of a new product, starting a new service etc.

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Best Practices for a Good & Effective Project Scheduling

September 22nd, 2011 No comments

One of the important activity of Project Management is the Project Scheduling. Success of the Project depends upon the Project Scheduling. Scheduling of the work can be done on monthly/weekly/daily basis – depending on the size of the project. Generally, it is done on weekly basis. If team is following agile methodology with sprints of 1 week, it might be done on daily basis.

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