Project Management made Easy - blog, tips, resources

Welcome to the new style of managing your projects! Our new Easy Project mobile app allows you to get free from your working desk – you can create new tasks on the go, post quick comments to keep things moving and track and dominate your time with a few taps. Let's take a closer look at the app now!

It's time for a bit of introspection. Think with us about what you really enjoy about the role of project manager and what, on the contrary, is getting on your nerves when managing projects. The job of a project manager is not an easy one.

Since Atlassian has announced the end-of-life timeline for Jira Server, many of you are now to decide on what to do next. Stay on your current on-premise solution, or migrate to a new one? Learn about the top 6 things that help you to make a good decision.

Sometimes we are so used to doing things a certain way that we almost forget there is something else out there. And this applies to all areas of our life – from nutrition to personal relationships and our professional life and career.

Do not lose money on your projects. Take the opportunity and have a look with us at the basic principles of financial project management and control your income, expenses, and the entire project budget.

We present the most important milestones plus a bit of less important fun facts of 2020.

The choice of cloud hosting vs. server hosting has become an eternal topic of discussion. Even more so now – since Jira announced the end of life of Jira server.

Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, millions of people around the world have started working from their homes. Remote working is not new, but with the pandemic, it has become a necessity instead of an alternative to a physical office.

Getting ready for migration from the Jira server to another server solution? Here is what to expect when you choose this route. Since Atlassian announced the end of the Jira server solution, many users have to make a decision on what will their next steps be.

With so many different project management tools out there, doing research on which one is the best for you, may get a bit overwhelming. No need to stress out though. We got your back and we did the homework on your behalf! Check the pros and cons of the most popular project management software.

Since Atlassian, an important player in the project management market, has announced the end of Jira Server solution (with the process commencing in 2021), we all ask ourselves “Is this the beginning of the end of Server Solutions?”

How did 2020 change the work of teams according to project managers worldwide? At the end of last year, we asked more than a hundred project managers around the world how their work had changed due to the Covid-related events. Maybe you were one of them!

No successful project did ever start without an effective plan. One of the components that must come first in this plan is the schedule. As a project manager, you might be tempted to quickly get on with the work and figure out the schedule as you go along.

Agile project management is a methodology that relates to a special project management approach. Iterations/sprints are used for continuous and feedback-controlled improvements in the planning and implementation of projects.

When clickbait articles on the next year start popping up, you know it's December again. But whether it is a Chinese horoscope or Project Management, rather than serious thinking, you get a safe list of very obvious things, not inspiring ideas nor valuable thoughts.

We asked project managers what was the biggest issue connected to Covid they have faced. Our favorite answer: “The whole Covid is a pain in the ass.” Dear reader, we picked the top three f**kups  – oh, one of them is ours, btw. – so you avoid doing the same faults in managing your projects.

Let me guess – it's Monday, slightly after 9 AM and you're the only one ready in your virtual Zoom room. You start to feel just anger. With some of your team members simply ignoring the time schedule, you have become more “Postpone” than “Project” manager. What can you do about it?

Be honest: are you sure about using approved project management methodologies as good as you can? The answer is simple – if you feel stressed at work, you don't. There are lots of great PM tools, but the point is to know a few tips & tricks to really make them work for you – the project manager. Ideally with up to date all-in-one software, or separately.

All improved to boost your project management. It's Easy Project, which is now released in version 10.6 Autumn Edition. Look forward to brand new features and various enhancements, such as improved Gantt chart, reporting from Resource Management or better UX.

Woohoo! The new Easy Project 10.6 – Autumn Edition is here! Discover how to get your projects done smoother and quicker using new powerful features and improvements!

The Gantt chart is undoubtedly one of the most important visual project management tools in Easy Project. See what's new in this brief change overview.

A company’s economic activity is undoubtedly important. However, other aspects are also gaining increasing prominence - environmental protection or social responsibility.

We'd like to inform you about the upcoming end of life of Debian 8 OS that could impact your production Easy Project application. Security updates for Debian 8 will be discontinued on June 30, 2020.

A brand new Easy Project 10 brings improved design and user experience along with the most wanted project management features. If you are interested in new features released in this version, just try it in a 30-day free trial or play the webinar recording.

Have you identified all risks in your project or company that you continuously monitor and set up processes to prevent them? From my own experience, this is usually not the case, and risk management, like data backup, for example, becomes a neglected activity, which is appreciated only retrospectively, when it is usually too late.

Are your projects well protected against common risks? Can you plan your future testing scenarios right in your project management? Are your projects secured from unauthorized access? Or can you let your tasks' due date calculate automatically? Of course, you can. With new Easy Project 10 that has just been released.

Despite the home office has become a widely used benefit in recent years, many companies still do not know how to make it work efficiently. While all you need to do is to stick to the guiding principles, and your team or the entire business can work effectively like from the office.

Leaving aside the need to work from home because of the current situation (coronavirus emergency; March 2020), a number of studies suggest the use of home office. I would like to share with you the results of a two-year study by Professor of Economics Nicholas Blooma of Stanford University. (study from 2017; source here)

Announcement for server admins who take care of Easy Project Server solution. As of 30. 4. 2020, support for Ruby 2.3.x is dropped due to the increasing deprecation of this version from third-party components used by Easy Project.

Our new implementation guide will walk you through the basics you need to know to adapt ESSENTIAL and BUSINESS PLAN of Easy Project quickly and painlessly. The goal of this manual is to get your application into a state where you can start managing simple real projects with real people in a short amount of time.

Keeping your Easy Project safe and resilient is as important to us just as it is to you. Therefore, we bring some advice (including strong recommendations). Some tips you may find obvious, however, a good checklist should contain everything.

You may call it Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) or visual finance management. Easy Project CBS is an integral part of our existing, very popular feature called Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Thanks to CBS, you can see and manage project and task finances right from the mind map view.

Easy Project introduces a set of plugins for integrated DevOps management. From Requirements to Test Cases and Continuous Integration. In this webinar recording, you will also learn how to create powerful UML or other diagrams right within your tasks, dashboards, knowledgebase, requirements or test scenarios.

Try the integrated Help Desk solution by Easy Project for improved customer care and smoother processing. There are two basic ways of creating tickets – from e-mail or from a simplified user interface. Tickets are stored in projects where you can define SLAs, pre-paid hours, transfer 'unused' hours and easily generate reports.

Resource management made easy and visual with Easy Project 2019. It is a tool for professional planning and assignment of work. Managers plan work on projects with regard to real-time capacities of workers and estimated time for task realization. Watch the webinar recording (below) to learn more.

Do you wonder what to expect from a second big update of Easy Project this year? When the original 2019 version was released in February, it brought a lot of new features. But October's update goes even further as it brings improved design and user experience in addition to good old (and new) project management features.

In our webinar recording (below), you will learn why Gantt chart in Easy Project 2019 represents a powerful planning tool in your hands, based on a graphical overview (bar chart) and a schedule of all tasks (issues) that belong either to a given project or globally to all projects.

Just like any other business, schools have a lot of projects that need proper management. Something as simple as conducting a meeting can prove to be quite a frustrating process if things are not managed the right way.

Have control over your tasks, meetings, attendance, CRM activities, and resources on a single calendar screen. Watch our webinar recording (below) to find out how Scheduler can make your work easier.

If you want to avoid later complications and lead the project towards a successful end, such a perspective on project development is crucial, together with efficient leadership. So, let's start answering.

Being efficient in the use of resources is integral to the success of any project, more so when it comes to industrial projects. A tiny mistake in management can lead to disastrous consequences in industrial companies due to the size of their projects.

Make your projects more profitable with new powerful Easy Project 2019. New features like Business Intelligence, Scheduler, Cost Breakdown Structure and more. Now it's even easier to start with the new Lite version.

Please note that with the June update of Easy Project 2019, browser Internet Explorer will no longer be supported.

Any kind of trade usually has its trade association, an umbrella organization officially representing the business sector and providing related training or networking. Project management is not different.

Do you want to make your projects easy & efficient since your beginning with Easy Project? Then explore our complete Easy Project User Guide.

Do you write tasks down on little pieces of paper that you stick to your monitor? Do you keep a running notepad or Excel sheet? That’s fine up to a certain number of projects, but trying to manage even a small team of people this way is practically impossible.

Last week, a new major version of Easy Project was released. The 2019 edition brings new powerful features like Business Intelligence, Scheduler, Cost Breakdown Structure, Diagrams, and more. On the top of that, "easy-to-start" Lite version is great as the first step into project management.

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Project manager dashboard in Easy Project 2019 brings the most useful features for project manager role on just a single screen. All the modules are fully customizable to your liking. Watch the video tutorial to learn more.

Resource Management is a key extension of Easy Project 2019. Easily assign tasks to users, get overview of workload across all users and projects and manage user's workload for optimal utilization of their competencies.