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Kate Eby

Kate Eby is a senior content specialist at Smartsheet with years of experience planning, managing, and tracking projects of all types of sizes. Kate is our point person for all things related to project management best practices.

Free Critical Path Templates

Streamline your project management and scheduling with critical path method (CPM) templates. Choose from a variety of options, including spreadsheet and diagram templates, which you can download and customize for free. Included on this page are a ...

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Free Post-Mortem Templates Roundup

Create a culture of continuous improvement with this roundup of the most useful business post-mortem templates. Choose from a variety of customizable templates, all of which you can download for free. Included on this page, you’ll find a project ...

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Understanding the Unique Utility of OKRs vs. SMART Goals

In this article, you’ll learn about the differences between OKR and SMART goals from seasoned experts, and discover how these methodologies work together. Included on this page, you’ll learn the difference between OKR and SMART goals, when to use ...

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Free OKR Examples for Every Department

In this article, you’ll learn about the importance of setting OKRs and find an extensive list of OKR samples and examples for a range of businesses, as well as for individual departments. Included on this page, you’ll find information on “trickle ...

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Project Status Templates and Dashboards

In this article, you’ll find the most useful project status reports and dashboards for project managers and teams, including a Weekly Project Status Report Template and a Project Report Dashboard Template. You can also learn how to write a great ...

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Free Project Initiation Templates

In this article, you’ll find the most useful projection initiation document (PID) templates for project managers (PMs), digital project managers (DPMs), project teams, and various other stakeholders, as well as helpful details for filling out these ...

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Free Project Milestone Templates

This article sources the best, most useful templates to help you identify, manage, and track your next project. You’ll find templates in a wide variety of formats, including Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and PDF. Included on this page, you'll ...

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Top Project Management Excel Templates

In this article, you’ll find the top project management templates in Microsoft Excel that you can easily download and use for free to help you track project status, communicate progress among team members and stakeholders, and manage issues as they arise.

Everything You Need to Know About Utilization Rates

To understand utilization and utilization rates, let’s imagine we have a widget-making machine. The machine has a maximum number of widgets it can produce in a day, because it takes a certain amount of time for the machine to manufacture one widget. ...

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How to Build a Winning Creative Project Management Strategy

Traditional project management (PM) won't work with creative teams and clients. In this article, you'll learn the skills a creative project manager needs, the challenges of creative PM, and find templates to get started.

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Free Project Schedule Templates

In this article, you’ll find all the project schedule templates you need to get started on simple or detailed schedules. We’ve included project schedule templates in Gantt, timeline, and list formats that cover high-level project overviews and ...

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Free Project Management Plan Templates

In this article, you’ll find all the project management plan templates you need to get started on a comprehensive project plan. We’ve included templates that cover all aspects of project planning, from scope and budget to communication and ...

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