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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A budget is a document that’s mainly used to break down the costs of executing a project or running the operations of a business for a period of time and define a maximum spending limit for the procurement of resources. Google Sheets helps with collaboration but it isn’t a true project management software.

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JULY 11, 2023

Every business, even a not-for-profit business, needs a budget. A business budget can be looked at as the fuel that drives the business. To understand what that means, we first have to define what a business budget is, which we’ll do in a moment. What Is a Business Budget? There’s no setup required.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Figuring out what to spend its capital on, such as capital spending on long-term assets, is part of capital budgeting. First, we need to define capital budgeting, what a capital budget is and why it’s important. Then we can go through the capital budgeting techniques and the steps to a capital budgeting process.

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APRIL 18, 2024

When managing teams, it’s essential to create timelines to track their progress as they execute their tasks. Project management software is the most efficient way to create timelines to plan, assign and track their tasks. More powerful than Google Sheets is project management software.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Excel project budget templates are one of the most popular tools to create a project budget. However, Excel isn’t the best tool for project budgeting as it doesn’t allow project team members to collaborate online, sharing files among team members it’s a time-consuming process, among other productivity drawbacks.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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?

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s why a production budget is essential. But what is a production budget and what should be included in one? We’ll answer those questions and then show you how to make a production budget so you’re always producing what your customers want. What Is a Production Budget? They are part of the larger operating budget.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

If human resources are your most valuable resource, you better give them the attention they need to get their work done. One way to make sure you’re supporting your team and project alike is with workforce planning. Workforce planning is important and we’ll show you why. What Is Workforce Planning?

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MARCH 21, 2024

Making sure resources are in working order keeps production moving forward and helps you stay productive. This is true in other industries where maintenance planning is essential to successful projects and productivity. What do we mean when we say maintenance planning? What Is Maintenance Planning?

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MAY 9, 2023

Projects are planned and scheduled, but that’s just the preamble to the real work. Executing projects to meet deadlines without overspending the budget requires a project manager to understand resource availability. It’s part of the larger process of resource management. What Is Resource Availability?

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MAY 16, 2023

An operating budget is a tool that helps business owners and project managers alike to look at the long-term financial needs of their organization or project. It’s instrumental in forecasting the budget needed to run your business or project. We’ll explain that and go into what should be included in your operating budget.

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JUNE 6, 2023

There’s one thing that all businesses have in common with project management: money. Without funding and the proper budgeting process, projects in any industry grind to a halt. Budgeting is how those funds are spent. But first, let’s define what a budget is and explore the types of budgets and methods for making a budget.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Having to make an event budget adds another layer of stress. But it doesn’t have to be a nightmare if you follow a few simple steps to creating an event budget. If you’re struggling with the event budget it can negatively impact the whole event. What Is an Event Budget? How to Create an Event Budget. Learn more.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Strategic project management understands this. If you haven’t heard the term before, we’ll begin with a definition of strategic project management and explain how strategic projects differ from operational projects. What Is Strategic Project Management? Allocate resources, track time and manage tasks all from one screen.

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APRIL 25, 2023

Whether you’re running a company or a project, you’re going to have to deal with a budget. A budget is the spending plan that you forecast using estimates of income and expenses. A budget report is a necessary tool to manage your finances and keep your business or project viable. What Is a Budget Report?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Do you have the resources? Resource forecasting is how you can answer that last question. Resources are anything you need to execute the project plan. Want to know why resource forecasting is so important? What Is Resource Forecasting in Project Management? As noted, resources can mean many things.

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MARCH 8, 2022

Resource management is one of the most important aspects of project management. That’s because projects need resources and those resources must be managed. Project resources are all the raw materials, equipment and human resources necessary to execute project tasks. What Is Resource Management?

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AUGUST 25, 2022

Resource management tools are an essential part of any project management software. Every project has materials, tools, equipment, people or resources to manage. No matter how good your project plan is, if you can’t manage your resources, your project will suffer. What Is Resource Management?

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

You’ve heard it countless times; teams are projects’ most valuable resource. But a project manager has to connect each team member to that work. Resource loading is a process to keep team members fully engaged throughout the project. Being able to balance the resource load across your team is important.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A project budget contains the financial details of your project, including the estimates of all the money you need to layout to lead a successful project, from resources to materials. Monitor project expenses with this Excel budget template. The budget is the life’s blood of your project, so you need to monitor it accurately.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A marketing budget is how marketers know how much they can spend on their campaign. Understanding how to create a marketing budget is a key element of any marketing plan. Once you’ve made the marketing budget, you have to track it to ensure you stay within your marketing budget. What Is a Marketing Budget?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Gantt charts have been a fundamental project management tool for over a century, and it’s easy to understand why. We’ll show you how to make a Gantt chart in ProjectManager and why construction Gantt charts help deliver projects on time and within budget. Construction Gantt charts are versatile project management tools.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Managing a project requires more than planning and budgeting, it also requires scheduling. While deliverables are due at specific points on your project timeline, getting those deliverables completed on time requires scheduling your human resources with a resource calendar. What Is a Resource Calendar?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is the start of strategic planning. Once the vision is defined, then the practical work begins, and strategic planning templates can facilitate that work. Why Should You Use Strategic Planning Templates? Using premade strategic planning templates is also helpful because there’s no busy work involved.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

Money sets the gears of construction management in motion. Creating a construction budget, therefore, is one of the most important pieces when developing a construction plan. How do you create a construction budget, anticipate the costs for a project and track them to make sure you’re not overspending?

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MARCH 21, 2022

Whether you’re a numbers person or not, as a project manager, ownership of a budget is usually a key part of your job responsibilities. Creating and managing a project budget can be a daunting task, but it can be easy if you use the right project budgeting software. What Is a Project Budget? Learn More!

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JULY 15, 2021

Resources in project management are the people, places and things you need to get the job done. That can mean a lot of headaches for project managers trying to balance their resources with the team’s capacity. And, of course, all this is happening on a tight schedule and budget. What Is Resource Management?

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Construction projects come big and complex as well as small and simple, but one thing they all share is a construction phase plan. The construction phase plan is a critical construction project management document that helps to ensure a safe project. What Is a Construction Phase Plan? Learn more.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

Resources in project management are the people, places and things you need to get the job done. That can mean a lot of headaches for project managers trying to balance their resources with the team’s capacity. And, of course, all this is happening on a tight schedule and budget. What Is Resource Management?

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MARCH 7, 2023

Planning an event can range from a meeting at work to a convention and everything in between. It’s another project where you have to manage time, cost and scope (and don’t forget quality) to deliver on a deadline. ProjectManager is award-winning software that can help you plan, manage and track your events. Learn more 3.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Resources are what you need to execute your project plan—people, equipment and materials. Managing those resources is part of how you deliver a successful project. Each task in your project plan will have project resources like people, time and a budget attached. All of them will impact your project.

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MARCH 13, 2020

Resources in project management are the people, places and things you need to get the job done. That can mean a lot of headaches for project managers trying to balance their resources with the team’s capacity. All this is happening on a tight schedule and budget. What is Resource Management Software?

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

Everything you need for your manufacturing process is a resource—people, materials, equipment, software, facilities, etc. And whatever you’re making, you need to manage those resources to do it. That process is called manufacturing resource planning (MRP II), and it’s a method that used to work more effectively.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. To better manage projects, one must clearly understand project strategy, who’s responsible for it in the organization and the steps to create a project strategy. What Is Project Strategy?

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JULY 5, 2022

It’s not uncommon for organizations to have more plans than they have funds. That creates a dilemma: how to spend their budget. A capital improvement plan can guide an organization when it’s trying to figure out which large projects or purchases in which they should invest. But what exactly is a capital improvement plan?

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sometimes the whole picture isn’t clear when you’re planning a project. But with a traditional project management methodology, such as waterfall, you set everything up first and then you’re stuck with it. But the waterfall methodology is only one way to manage a project. What Is Rolling Wave Planning?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Resource allocation is just a fancy term for a plan that you develop for using the available resources at your disposal in a project. This is mostly a short-term plan set in place to achieve goals in the future. Resources are varied. Identify Resources. You’re a project manager. Know Your Scope.

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