Project Milestones

What Are Project Milestones (And How To Use Them)

Project milestones play a vital role in business, helping you to track progress and providing a valuable tool for measuring your team’s success rate. They can be useful in keeping everyone involved in a project aware of its end goal and the various, smaller goals that should be met in getting there. This article will help to define milestones in project management and give you some valuable information on how to use them to move your project forward.

Google Docs Tutorial

A Simple Google Docs Tutorial For Marketers (incl. 7 Google Docs Templates)

Google Docs makes creating, reviewing and revising content super-easy. While it’s interface doesn’t come anywhere close to the slick, distraction-free writing apps out there, but the fact that all your content is backed up in your Google Drive — even if you’re on a flaky internet connection — really helps focus on the writing.

Add to this a user-friendly mobile writing experience (via the Google Docs app), add-ons, and templates — and Google Docs pretty much becomes any marketer’s go-to content tool. Let’s now look at answers to some of the most common user questions about Google Docs and then see some very useful and free Google Docs business templates.

project charter

Free Project Charter Template (And Why You Should Use It)

Maybe this situation sounds familiar to you: you’re one member of a team all working on the same project, and weeks or perhaps months in you find yourself stuck in the middle of a task that should be simple and straightforward, but you need permission from a project lead for something and there’s confusion above you about which project lead can give you the green light.

Meanwhile, your buddy on the project team is asking for your help on an idea that you think is out of scope, but he’s convinced that it’s necessary and neither of you have evidence one way or the other to support your claim. Your project manager is impossible to get ahold of because she’s so busy putting out fires, and you have a horrible feeling that even though the project’s initial timeline is vague, there’s no way that all the necessary deliverables are going to come together in time.