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12 Free Project Planning Templates for Excel and Word

ProjectManager.com

Without a plan, projects are in trouble. Project planning is one of the first and most important aspects of project management. Using project planning templates can help you schedule tasks, estimate budgets and allocate resources. Why Use Project Planning Templates? Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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Planning a Budget for a Proposal in 5 Easy Steps (+ Example)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We start with the 5 easy steps to plan and write your budget proposal. A proposal budget aims to convince the evaluator who reads your proposal that you have a solid grasp of your plan and that you are worthy of being trusted with funding. For more on how to create a project budget, this article has all the info you need.)

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How to do Rolling Wave Planning

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Rolling wave planning, also known as progressive elaboration, is an iterative planning technique to use when it’s difficult (or pointless) to schedule too far ahead. The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time.

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12 Questions for Monitoring Project Risks

Project Risk Coach

In this article, I am providing questions that can help you in monitoring project risks and as a result, achieve better results. When problems occur, they turn to their risk response plan. ” When Should We Monitor Project Risks? ” When Should We Monitor Project Risks? It seems like a vague notion.

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How We Chose the Perfect Planning Poker Tool

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Planning poker® is a great technique for scrum teams. We use planning poker with these teams and as there are a lot of products to choose from, we spent some time testing different ones to find the perfect match. Later we also ordered the Planning Poker cards deck on Amazon. We tried 6 planning poker tools. What we tried.

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Communication Plan Template

ProjectManager.com

Whether you need to define communication objectives, or identify stakeholders and channels, you can use this communication plan template to schedule project communications and establish a feedback loop that keeps everyone up to date. Download The Free Communications Plan Template: Why You Need a Communication Plan Template.

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20 Things For Your Project Management Plan [With 3 Free Templates]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Your project management plan is more than just a schedule of work. Although I am guilty of using ‘plan’ and ‘Gantt chart’ interchangeably. A project management plan is a document that sets out how you are going to do what you’re going to do. So what does go in the project management plan ? Be pragmatic though.

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