How to Plan and Allocate Resources in Your Project with ConceptDraw PROJECT for Windows

Effective resource management is a key factor in the successful project implementation. The common types of resources for which the project manager has an impact, include material resources (materials, energy), staff (work) and equipment. CoceptDraw PROJECT provides easy ways to project Resources Management: Create a list of project resources and assign the right human resource, as well as the necessary material, or equipment to be used.

How to Customize a Task’s Duration

When you create an automatically scheduled task, ConceptDraw PROJECT assigns it duration of one day by default. You need modify that duration to reflect the real amount of time that the task requires.

How to Operate with Project Time Frames in ConceptDraw PROJECT

ConceptDraw PROJECT applies an advanced scheduling facilities to enable you arrange your project's tasks with existing human and material resources. Comprehension of project scheduling principle allows you to plan the project the best way to execute it. Sometimes user is wondering why the task is moved to a different time than he supposed. Or he may be confused when a task's tardiness provoke the unwanted shift of other tasks. This article describes how do changes to the Start/Finish dates, or the Duration of the task affect the project schedule, created in ConceptDraw PROJECT.

How to Plan and Allocate Resources in Your Project on Mac

CoceptDraw PROJECT provides easy ways to project Resources Management: Create a list of project resources and assign the right people to tasks, as well as the necessary materials to be used.

How to Use the Effort-Driven Scheduling Method

The idea of Effort-driven scheduling in project management is that each project task can be scheduled and assumed basing to the amount of the available work hours. Effort-driven scheduling is used as the default method of project scheduling in ConceptDraw PROJECT. This means that task duration, units, and work amount for individual assignment depends on the entire work, required for a given task. Whether you add or remove resources, the total work amount still the same, while ConceptDraw PROJECT regulates the duration of task or units assigned for the given resources.

How to Make a Mind Map from a Project Gantt Chart

ConceptDraw Office allows you to see the project data from ConceptDraw PROJECT in a mind map structure by opening your project in ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

How to Create a Custom Filter in ConceptDraw PROJECT for Windows

With ConceptDraw Project, you can filter project data so that you only see the information that’s most important to you.

How to Create Project Diagrams on Mac

Diagrams are very useful for project implementation because they help teams visualize important details such as interrelations between tasks, critical paths, timelines, milestones, calendars, and also resource usage.

How to Use Critical Path Analysis for Scheduling Complex Projects

Instruction on how to use this important project management tool with ConceptDraw PROJECT

How to Track Your Project Plan vs. the Actual Project Condition

Conceptdraw PROJECT allows to follow how the project is going. You can easily compare the actual project data with the planned ones. The best tool for effective tracking of the project execution is to compoare real data with project baseline. It consists from the baseline start, baseline finish and baseline cost. Along with Baseline tracking ConceptDraw PROJECT offers several types of visual reports that can help to assess visually the difference between planned and actual project data.

How to Change the Working Time in a Project

Project calendar determines working and non-working time of the project. It is used as a base to the project schedule development. There two types of project calendars: Project Calendar - which sets the working time for the whole project; and the Resource Calendar- which sets the working time of the particular project resource. The following article describes how to change the default calendar in ConceptDraw PROJECT.

How to Set a Project Baseline Using ConceptDraw PROJECT

Project baseline in ConceptDraw PROJECT is excellent forguiding the execution of the current project and can be useful for further projects.

How to Import Project Data From MS Excel Worksheet

You can import information into the project from MS Excel workbook using the entered fields - fields in which you can enter or edit information as opposed to calculated fields.

How to add Several Hyperlinks to a Single Project Task

The number of hyperlinks, you can add to each project item in ConceptDraw PROJECT file is unlimited.

How to Create Multiple Projects Schedule on OS X

You can create a detailed schedule of your project quickly and easy with ConceptDraw PROJECT. It is easy to use the Multiproject Dashboard to plan multiple projects as if were a single one.