4 Easy Organization Tips for a Successful Project Plan

Your team looks to you for a clear path to success. If your project plan’s a jumbled mess with no real rhyme or reason, that can create confusion, waste time, and leave your stakeholders less-than-impressed.

That’s why creating a neat and tidy project plan is so important.

Give these simple project organization tips a try, and prepare for a crowd-pleasing project victory. 🏆

1. Break your project down into phases

Arranging your project by phases of work is a simple and straightforward way to tackle project organization. And there are lots of ways you can go about it. For instance, here’s an example of how you might apply an agile approach to your project plan by organizing your tasks into sprints.

TeamGantt tip: Using subgroups to nest tasks

In TeamGantt, you can use subgroups to break work down into phases. This makes your gantt chart super-scannable and enables you to collapse completed phases for a cleaner look. Feel free to get as granular as you want!

2. Organize tasks by team

Here, we used nested task groups to organize tasks by the team responsible, breaking each team’s tasks down further into categories of work.

You can also tag tasks to communicate high-level task ownership. This can be especially helpful if you work as an agency project manager who oversees client projects. In this example project, the tags at the beginning of each task name clearly indicate who’s responsible—the Gantt Museum (GM) vs. the project team (PT).

TeamGantt tip: Color-coding tasks by team members

Assigning default task colors to each project team member is a big time-saver that gives your project more visual organization. That’s because the default color you choose will be automatically applied to any task you assign to that person moving forward. Say sayonara to tedium! 👋

3. Build a calendar

Do you have an ongoing project with regular deliverables? Consider structuring your work into a calendar format by organizing task groups by month and date. This approach can be especially useful for creating a social media marketing plan or content calendar for your blog, like the example below.

TeamGantt tip: Adding recurring tasks

If each task group in your project repeats the same set of tasks, speed up project setup by duplicating task groups and simply renaming and rescheduling the new task group.

4. Communicate priorities

Want to make it easy for your team to prioritize their work without having to ask you for help? Color-code taskbars to let your team know at a glance which tasks matter most. That saves time and allows everyone to keep their eye on the project prize.

TeamGantt tip: Setting priority filters

There may be times you want to pull a list of high-priority tasks. In TeamGantt, that’s quick and easy to do. Simply assign priorities to tasks as labels so they’ll show up as options under your People filter.

Organize projects quickly and easily

With TeamGantt, project organization’s a snap! And you can rest assured your project plan is always dressed to impress.

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