Project Management made Easy - blog, tips, resources

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.

myComfort is a Czech company dedicated to the provision of Smart Home solutions to end users’ apartments, family houses etc. as well as to companies.

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.

The relationship between the scope, schedule and cost of a project is referred to as the Triple Constraint or Triple Imperative or Iron Triangle. It is imperative that a Project Manager understands that adjustments cannot be made to one of the three attributes without affecting at least one of the others.

Success in project management has been traditionally associated with the ability of the project manager to deliver in scope, time, cost, and quality. The “iron triangle” is a challenge to reach a reasonable trade-off among various concurrent, heterogeneous, and visible constraints.

Why sink into chaos with a costly set of unsynchronized management tools? Easy Project offers you an all-in-one management solution that will help you on every management stage using PRINCE2 methods and can be adjusted to your company's and environment's needs.

Every project is defined, at the very least, by 3 crucial characteristics. When managed with proper level of attention and precision, the delivery will be a breeze...

Easy Community gathers Easy users from all around the world in one place, perfect for sharing experience and getting advice from IT experts, admins and regular users. Download and share project templates, dashboards, and custom modifications.

Every project is defined, at the very least, by 3 crucial characteristics. When managed with proper level of attention and precision, the delivery will be a breeze...

Easy Community gathers Easy users from all around the world in one place, perfect for sharing experience and getting advice from IT experts, admins and regular users. Download and share project templates, dashboards, and custom modifications.

Yes, it is as easy as that! In Easy Project, we want to show appreciation to those who help us to reach more people who are looking for a project management tool.

PPF Bank is a specialized corporate and investment bank providing financial consulting, banking and investment services especially in the Czech Republic, Middle, and Eastern Europe.

Are you looking to import data into Easy Project or are you looking to integrate a software you already use with your Easy Project? Learn more about data import and integrations we offer, such as API and Zapier.

The agile methodology that acts as the center of the Scrum approach to software development now prevails in organizations around the world.

Join Easy Project Affiliate Program and learn how to make extra money recommending Easy Project to your clients and your contacts. Click on the play button below to start the webinar.

JIRI models is a Czech company based in Pisek. The company focuses on publishing and merchandising products, mostly fun and creative books with popular children's motifs.

Easy buttons are the fastest way of updating your tasks and tickets. Just drag selected task and drop it on an Easy button. And its automatically updated. Click on the play button below to start the webinar.

Knowledge Base is a complex solution for incorporating knowledge management into your Easy Project. Click on the play button below to start the webinar.

If you need to connect Easy Project with more than 1000 apps, Zapier platform is the best solution for you. Right now Easy Project is the public app on Zapier so you are able to self-integrate with our templates or create your own integrations.

Are you looking for enterprise-level hosting conditions of high-end project management tool? Are you looking for integrated DevOps solutions from trusted cloud provider in your region? Now you can get Easy Project, GitHub, Jenkins and many other applications integrated and hosted by Tieto in their DevOps Space.

Help desk can be the ultimate tool for customer support. And more satisfied customers = higher profits... Click on the play button below to start the webinar.

They are not just buzzwords, they really do have practical implications. But most importantly, they are not synonyms. Learn when it's best to use Kanban or when to start seriously contemplating Scrum... Click on the play button below to start the webinar.

On April 1, 2018, we started cooperation with the University of Economics in Prague. Easy Software supports secondary study specialization titled "Project Management", which is taught at the Faculty of Business Administration.

Are you interested in how to connect Easy Project with XERO and other accounting systems? Simply thanks to Zapier platform, which gives you integration allow you almost real-time finance controlling of your project budgets.

Easy Project combined with Resource management plugin is an incredibly powerful tool that provides you also with a user-friendly and effective machines capacity planning solution.

Well-managed customer requirements are a necessity for well-implemented projects. There is no doubt about that. Luckily, you don't need to look for another tool when you already have Easy Project.

Agile vs Waterfall - in this post I will offer you a discussion about these two methodologies, what are their benefits, how they can help you and how to combine them.

Pyramids in ancient Egypt were done as the projects. Projects are with human society from the very beginning. During the time projects and their management have changed and today, in the 3rd millennium, it is a time of cloud.

Workflow is a very helpful tool, which is used for managing status transitions and field permissions. It is accessible from the administration (it can be managed only by an administrator).