What Constitutes a Project?

Project management gantt chart - prepare marketing release

Separated into categories of Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced categories, the new instructional videos about ConceptDraw PROJECT cover a huge breadth of topics, explaining how to use project management software. Users new to ConceptDraw PROJECT will find the Basic lessons an essential platform for familiarizing themselves with the programs′s functions and found it simple project management software. This video lesson is the first in Basic lessons series tells about affordable simple project management software, it may be used as an intro for what is project management using simple project management sample. ConceptDraw PROJECT is excellent portfolio project management software, this lessons explains how to use project management software for small business in case of multi project environment.

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PM Dashboards

This solution extends ConceptDraw PRO and ConceptDraw PROJECT software with the ability to clearly display the identified key performance indicators for any project.

Advanced Resource Assignment in ConceptDraw Project

Now you know all of the tricks on assigning resources in ConceptDraw PROJECT. You can now better use these flexible management tools to realize your project’s goals efficiently.

Task Types in ConceptDraw Project

Now assigning resources to tasks can be logically and intuitively understood. Now you can vary the mannerin which you add resources or task durations with ConceptDraw PROJECT. When assigning resources to tasks in your project, you may face a situation when different tasks require different approaches. To keep track of the different kinds of tasks that make up your project, ConceptDraw Project provides you with very flexible tool called a Task type.

Critical Path Method in ConceptDraw PROJECT

The Critical Path Method (CPM) is an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities. It is an important tool for effective project management. ConceptDraw PROJECT implements this method to provide the user with a wide set of project management tools.

How To Plan and Implement Projects Faster

Project — Gantt Chart: New Product Launch

ConceptDraw Office is the most effective tool for planning, tracking, and reporting all types of projects with strong management capabilities, user friendly functionality, and superior ease of use. In this tutorial video we will assist you in planning and managing a project using ConceptDraw Office.

Advanced printing in ConceptDraw Project

ConceptDraw PROJECT has flexible print settings that allowing you to easily print your project data to suite any need.

A KPI Dashboard

Composing a dashboard from different KPI is a kind of art. Visualizing sales data you have to keep balance to keep your dashboard informative, not messy. ConceptDraw Sales Dashboard solution gives you a set of good examples of balanced dashboards.

Sales KPI Dashboards

A combination of sales KPI on a one dashboard helps you track sales activities and results. Visualizing sales data using ConceptDraw PRO software extended with the Sales Dashboard solutiongives you flexibility in choosing and tuning KPIs.

A KPI Dashboard Provides the Answers Your Sales Team

Sales dashboard is a tool that provides the answers to all questions your sales team may have. A mature sales dashboard provides complete set of KPI to shows corporate, team or personal performance to keep sales process clear.

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How To Create the Interaction (Relation) Diagram

Identify relationships between factors affecting a problem using interaction (relation) diagram. The ability to create a Relation diagram from a mind map is supported by the ConceptDraw Seven Management and Planning Tools solution.

Relations diagram - Template

"Interrelationship digraph is a method to identify relationships among a set of items. Items that have a cause or effect associated on another item are linked together (and given weight) for the purpose of identifying the items most affected or items affecting other items the most, giving emphasis on those items for risk mitigation planning. Items involved in risk management could be risks being mitigated, risk strategies, project activities or resources. ...
This method fosters broad thinking of individuals to identify interrelationships of risk items that affect the whole project, determining critical risk areas that must be dealt first and ensures efficient allocation of project resources." [sce.uhcl.edu/ helm/ Risk_ Man_ WEB/ Planning%20 Worksheet%20 Notes_ files%5Cintrldgm.htm]
Relation diagram (interrelationship digraph, relationships digram) helps identify what factors are causes and which factors are effects. Factors help establish KPI (Key Performance Indicators) to monitor changes and the effectiveness of corrective actions in resolving a problem.
The relations diagram is one of the Seven Management and Planning Tools (7 MP tools, Seven New Quality Tools).
The relations diagram template for the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software is included in the solution "Seven Management and Planning Tools" from the Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

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KPIs and Metrics

The choice of KPIs and metrics you use is key point of success when measuring sales process. Visualizing sales data using ConceptDraw Sales Dashboard solution for ConceptDraw PRO gives you a choice from numerous pre-designed indicators for different metrics you may need.

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How to Make a Workflow Diagram Using ConceptDraw PRO

With the help of a workflow diagram you can visually describe the tasks, documents, people responsible for execution at each stage of workflow. Modern workflow diagrams have a specific focus on quality control. This can apply to the quality of inputs and outputs related to a process, or to the actual efficiency of the workflow itself. Different sectors of business use different diagramming techniques, and this has given rise to a number of methods that have become recognized in their own right as industry standards. ConceptDraw PRO, with the Workflow Diagrams solution, is ideal for creating diagrams of this type. Its RapidDraw technology takes the strain from diagram arrangement, allowing users to create their process steps with a single click, ideal for generating the many repeatable tasks that can make up a workflow. The Workflow Diagrams solution complements this feature with a library of selected icons to represent various steps.

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How to Draw an Organizational Chart Using ConceptDraw PRO

The organizational chart software is a valuable tool for modern business. It is important for any business to build a clear organizational structure that determines the responsibilities and relationships between different positions in the organization. The clear structured organization - means the clear structured business workflow, which is the core of success in the business. ConceptDraw PRO is an org chart software that allows you to draw an organizational structure of your company quickly and easily.

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How to Make a UML Diagram in ConceptDraw PRO

The Unified Modeling Language™(UML) is a standard visual modeling language to document business processes and software architecture. UML uses several types of diagrams including Use Case Diagrams, Class, Package, Component, Composite Structure Diagrams, Deployments, Activities and Interactions. The accepted standard used when modeling a system is known as Unified Modeling Language (UML), a generic set of notations that are used when creating UML diagrams. These notations can visually represent requirements, subsystems, logical and physical elements, and structural and behavioral patterns, that are especially relevant to systems built using an object-oriented style. Using UML during the modeling process has a number of benefits — for one, the entire development team can share information and collaborate using common language, diagrams and software, something that's not possible when using a more task-specific programming language. It allows team members to create system 'blueprin

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How to Draw a Circular Arrows Diagram Using ConceptDraw PRO

ConceptDraw circular arrows diagrams software

The cyclic recurrence is a fundamental property of multiple systems. The cycle is a process which consists from elements (phases, stages, stages) following each other. Many processes in astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, etc. have a cycle properties. It is also widely used in information technologies and marketing analysis. Graphical representation of cyclic processes can have many forms. It can be a circle, parabola, hyperbola, ellipse and others. A Circular Arrows Diagram is used as one of the statistical charts in the business, mass media and marketing. ConceptDraw PRO provides its users tools for making easy drawing Circular Arrows Diagrams.

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