Free Project Management Software: Web Gantt Charts with Gantter

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In LifeHacker’s write-up today, by the How-To Geek, we learned about an awesome Web-based Gantt tool for project management called Gantter.  If you’re used to MS Project, you’re in luck, because the app looks a whole lot like it.   And, if you’re using MS Project for some of it’s more advanced features on your local [...]

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Project Management Training for the PMP

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The most intensive project management certification available, lots of people are working on their project management training to keep up with today’s crazy pace of continually revised processes and new breakthroughs in the field of project management such as the Gantt chart and PERT chart. To cope with the challenges of a PMP certification exam, [...]

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Henry Gantt: Work, Wages & Profits

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Work, Wages and Profits by Henry Gantt ,  a book originally written for employers advocates the “efficient utilization of labor”.  Gantt advises the use of the “task and bonus” system is offered in order to have workers increase their output. Total work packages are divided into “tasks” and split among the workforce to allow for [...]

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Display Relative Week Numbers in MS Project

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Here’s a handy tip when you want to draw a Gantt chart , if you’d like to show the relative week number from the project start next to milestone tasks in the WBS of the Gantt chart.  You need to insert a calculated text field with to handle this.
Right click on the column header

Select “Insert [...]

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Mac Gantt Chart Software Review – Merlin 2.5

I am a Project Manager at KPMG and I create a lot of Gantt charts to convey project schedules.  It’s important to me to have solid Gantt chart software for this process.
As you all know, I abhor MS Project  because of its lack of intuitiveness as well as stove piping a certain way of [...]

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