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Project — Working With Costs

ConceptDraw PROJECT delivers a rich set of built-in functionalities and optional product extensions that support your daily workflow in time-saving and creative ways. This video lesson will teach you how to work with costs in your project document.
"Project planning is part of project management, which relates to the use of schedules such as Gantt charts to plan and subsequently report progress within the project environment.
Initially, the project scope is defined and the appropriate methods for completing the project are determined. Following this step, the durations for the various tasks necessary to complete the work are listed and grouped into a work breakdown structure. Project planning is often used to organize different areas of a project, including project plans, work loads and the management of teams and individuals. The logical dependencies between tasks are defined using an activity network diagram that enables identification of the critical path. Float or slack time in the schedule can be calculated using project management software. Then the necessary resources can be estimated and costs for each activity can be allocated to each resource, giving the total project cost. At this stage, the project schedule may be optimized to achieve the appropriate balance between resource usage and project duration to comply with the project objectives. Once established and agreed, the project schedule becomes what is known as the baseline schedule. Progress will be measured against the baseline schedule throughout the life of the project. Analyzing progress compared to the baseline schedule is known as earned value management.
The inputs of the project planning phase include the project charter and the concept proposal. The outputs of the project planning phase include the project requirements, the project schedule, and the project management plan." [Project planning. Wikipedia]
The flow chart example "Project planning process" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Flowcharts solution from the area "What is a Diagram" of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Flowchart - Project planning process
Flowchart - Project planning process, terminator, process,
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What Information to be Displayed in the ConceptDraw PROJECT Gantt Chart View

What information can contain the project task list? Gantt Chart view is a graphical representation of a project outline that allows one to allocate tasks. You can customize a project’s tasks list view to include the columns you need to meet your information requirements. The columns of the ConceptDraw PROJECT Gantt view contain the information you want to capture about each task in your project. The following article details what information can be contained in the columns of a project outline:<

Produce Professional Diagrams More Quickly, Easily and Cost Effectively

ConceptDraw Arrows10 Technology - This is more than enough versatility to produce professional diagrams more quickly. Professional diagramming software for mac helps you create variety diagrams, graphics, charts, live dashboards and plenty of graphics and pictures for your business and study.

Pyramid Diagram

A Venn-diagram style chart of the "project triangle" showing visually the potential overlaps between speed, quality and low cost, along with the "inability" to accomplish all three.
The vector stencils library "Project management" contains 30 project management icons.
Use it to design your business and finance illustrations and infographics with ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
The vector stencils library "Project management" is included in the Business and Finance solution from the Illustration area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Start project
Start project, start project,
Project plan
Project plan, project plan,
Project scheme
Project scheme, project scheme,
To do list
To do list, to do list,
Checklist
Checklist, checklist,
Project strategy
Project strategy, project strategy,
Timetable
Timetable, timetable,
Project time
Project time, project time,
Project fulfillment
Project fulfillment, project fulfillment,
Project Gantt chart
Project Gantt chart, project gantt chart,
Project completed
Project completed, project completed,
Project report
Project report, project report,
Project management
Project management, project management,
Project descriptions
Project descriptions, project descriptions,
Communications
Communications, communications,
Project team
Project team, project team,
Project director
Project director, project director,
Project manager
Project manager, project manager,
Assignment of works
Assignment of works, assignment of works,
Project analyst
Project analyst, project analyst,
Project benefits
Project benefits, project benefits,
Failure to draw on the funds
Failure to draw on the funds, failure to draw on the funds,
Cost overrun
Cost overrun, cost overrun,
Cost
Cost, cost,
Project expenses
Project expenses, project expenses,
Portfolio
Portfolio, portfolio,
Ticket
Ticket, ticket,
Project task
Project task, project task,
Financial resources
Financial resources, financial resources,
Material resources
Material resources, material resources,

Organigrams with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

ConceptDraw - Organigram software allows quickly create Organigrams and much more. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is an ideal tool for Administrative staff to clearly demonstrate the company orgchart professional.

Pyramid Diagram

The Project Management Triangle Diagram depicts three main constraints of any project: scope, time and cost. Projects have to comply with the specified scope, projects should be finished in time and projects need to consume the budget. Each of the constraints represents one side of the triangle, and any change in budget or timing or scope affects the entire diagram. This diagram was made using ConceptDraw Office suite including best marketing project management software extended with collection of tools for creative project management software and project management reporting software symbols.

Project Reports — Planning Reports

The reports are essential tools of effective project management. They reflect the statuses of projects and their tasks for the moment or for some period, and have a great value for projects of any size and complexity. The correctly composed they are incredibly effective for tracking and analyzing the process of project’s execution, and help a project manager in managing and improvement a project. The report gives a clear vision of a project status in just a few seconds, displays which tasks are performed and which ones must be fulfilled, and helps achieve the main project goals.

project management, overview reports, management, report, planning, project Overview Reports

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The Overview Reports solution extends the functionality of ConceptDraw PROJECT management software with a set of projects examples and capabilities to generate such project management report types as Project Overview or Project Overview with Resource Costs at your choice. These reports allow the project managers and team leaders to track and to analyze the main information on your project, the information about project’s tasks and usage of work and material resources, to evaluate the project progress in comparison with its state at a planning stage and at the moment of previous reporting period, to estimate the effectiveness of resources use, to detect the tasks that require additional efforts and possible irrationalities in resources allocation within a single project or several projects in a multiproject.

Project management - Design Elements

These vector illustrations and cliparts are created using ConceptDraw DIAGRAM for drawing the Project management Illustrations and contain plenty of project management design elements. The clipart library Project management includes 35 icons. This symbols used by the best marketing project management software, typically by project management reporting software for presentation on project status and results.
"A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge - Fifth Edition provides guidelines for managing individual projects and defines project management related concepts. It also describes the project management life cycle and its related processes, as well as the project life cycle.
The Guide recognizes 47 processes that fall into five basic process groups and ten knowledge areas that are typical of almost all projects.
The five process groups are:
Initiating,
Planning,
Executing,
Monitoring and Controlling,
Closing.
The ten knowledge areas are:
Project Integration Management,
Project Scope Management,
Project Time Management,
Project Cost Management,
Project Quality Management,
Project Human Resource Management,
Project Communications Management,
Project Risk Management,
Project Procurement Management,
Project Stakeholders Management (added in 5th edition).
Each of the ten knowledge areas contains the processes that need to be accomplished within its discipline in order to achieve an effective project management program. Each of these processes also falls into one of the five basic process groups, creating a matrix structure such that every process can be related to one knowledge area and one process group." [A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Wikipedia]
The flow chart example "Project management life cycle" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Flowcharts solution from the area "What is a Diagram" of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Flowchart - Project management life cycle
Flowchart - Project management life cycle, process,
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Audio & Video Connector Types

The Audio & Video Connectors solution contains a set of pre-designed objects, libraries, templates, and samples; allowing quick and easy diagramming of various configurations of audio and video devices.
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How to Set a Project Baseline

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

Project Reports — Project Finish

Today the competition in business is mainly carried at the level of projects, not companies. The company’s success is determined by the quality and profitability of its projects. The main goal of project management is the achievement of desired results at the planned terms, with a specified budget and required quality.