Budget, Process, Project Cost and Risk - Project Management Update

How to create a project budget

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

What is a project budget? A project budget is a financial document that lays out what you think you’ll spend on a project. It covers all the (approved) expenses required to deliver the project. In other words, it’s the way you answer the question: “How much is this project going to cost?”

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Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

ProjectManager.com

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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Organizational Process Assets: Definitions, Examples & Templates

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Some of these are called organizational process assets. These organizational process assets are critical to a project’s success and its operations. To make sure you understand what organizational process assets are, first, we’ll define the terms and explain their importance. What Is an Organizational Process Asset?

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What Is Positive Risk on Projects?

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

Project risk. Just the word risk can evoke the same kind of primal, fight-or-flight fear in project managers. But risk shouldn’t be feared, it’s just another part of the project to manage. All projects have some element of risk while other projects are inherently high-risk. (We’re

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Project Budget Template for Excel

ProjectManager.com

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. That’s where this project budget template comes in handy.

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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 29, 2021

Risks matter. Stuff happens on projects, and if the worst happens, it’s better to know about it in advance. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. What’s a risk again? It helps to think of risks in categories.

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Project Management Process Groups: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There are a thousand things that constantly impact the project and require you to reallocate resources to stay on track. To keep to your schedule and manage costs, you need to gather and process project data throughout the five PMBOK project management groups. What Are the 5 PMBOK Project Management Process Groups?

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Risk Management Process Explained (+resources, templates)

PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

I’ve been managing software development projects for more than 11 years. Risk management is arguably the most crucial piece in my project management approach. Therefore, I spent lots of time and effort creating a practical risk management process. You’ll get the whole risk management process below.

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12 Free Project Planning Templates for Excel and Word

ProjectManager.com

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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7 Tips on Reducing Project Costs

Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Reduction of project costs and at least avoiding significant cost overrun is one of the high priority tasks for a project manager. However, it usually becomes challenging due to a great number of factors: underestimation of project costs, uncontrolled changes, poor resource allocation, etc. Project delays.

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8 Tips on Reducing Project Costs

Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Reduction of project costs and at least avoiding significant cost overrun is one of the high priority tasks for a project manager. However, it usually becomes challenging due to a great number of factors: underestimation of project costs, uncontrolled changes, poor resource allocation, etc. Project delays.

Project Cost

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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

When you’re a PMP, program manager or portfolio manager, you need to deliver all those multiple projects on time and within budget. This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. It’s essential to keep projects successful for any organization to thrive.

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Project Financial Management: Managing Project Financials

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We’ll get to that and define the various project financials before getting into the process of managing a project’s finances. What Is Project Financial Management? Project financial management is the process of controlling the financial aspect of a project, such as its cost, revenue and profit.

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10 Do’s & Don’ts of Project Cost Management

nTask

MARCH 2, 2022

Unexpected costs, events, and miscalculations can take your project down the hill in no time. This is where project cost management jumps in. Cost management helps you to mitigate the risk of any surprise costs and budget constraints. What is Project Cost Management?

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Best Cost Control Techniques

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Cost control works by identifying and reducing expenses to increase the profitability of the company. Cost control as a process begins with budgeting. Comparing costs is but one way to analyze the financial performance of an organization or project. Finally, don’t neglect expert opinion. Seek it out.

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Project Monitoring and Control: Tools & Steps

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2023

There are project monitoring tools, of course, but like everything in project management, there’s a process that we’ll explain. What Is Project Monitoring and Control? Before we get to the steps to monitor your project, let’s put the concept into context. That’s called a project schedule baseline.

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Project Cost Estimation: Overview of the Process, Main Challenges, and Recommendations

Epicflow Blog

JULY 5, 2022

Estimation of project cost is one of the core practices of the project initiation stage, which becomes the basis for the approved project budget. At the same time, the forecasted cost should not be too overestimated or underestimated. What helps make cost estimation simple and efficient?

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What Is Job Costing? When to Use a Costing Sheet (Example Included)

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

Job costing is a type of accounting method that helps identify project costs and track them to keep to your budget. When doing job costing for a project, you’ll break down your project costs into three areas: labor, materials and equipment or overhead costs.

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How to Make a Contractor Payment Schedule in Construction (Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 22, 2024

Construction projects are often long and complicated endeavors. Payment is determined in the contract process, which includes the contractor payment schedule. This contractor payment schedule is defined in the construction contract and sets pay over regular intervals across the project schedule. They’re also expensive.

Construction

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Top 10 Project Management Qualifications

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Project Budgeting The project budget is what the project will cost to complete. It includes all project resources, from people to equipment and materials, which are needed to execute the project. Risk Management A project risk is an unexpected event, which can be positive or negative.

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Schedule of Values in Construction (Example & Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The schedule of values (SOV) is a construction document that’s part of the payment process when working on a project. It helps with project management by listing the project’s scope and the costs associated with those task needed to deliver the project successfully. What Is a Schedule of Values?

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Project Performance Reporting: Key Performance Reports

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Tracking project performance gives project managers the data they need to keep the actual effort of the project aligned with the planned effort and deliver the project on time and within its budget. But what exactly is project performance? Project management software can help.

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Construction Cost Management: Managing Construction Costs

ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2023

But if the construction cost goes over budget, that’s coming out of the contractor’s pocket. That’s why construction cost management is so important. Knowing exactly what construction cost management means and what a construction cost is can be the difference between project success or failure.

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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

By Alan Zucker We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Until we validate them, they are risks.

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Managing Project Assumptions & Risks

Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Or risks were identified, but a response strategy was never created.

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Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM): Understanding ROM Estimates

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 19, 2022

No one needs to tell you that projects cost money. But how much they’ll cost is an open question. The closer you can come to an accurate forecast of project costs, the more likely you’ll deliver a successful project. Rough order of magnitude (ROM) can help you better estimate project costs.

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Guide to Effective Project Cost Management

EasyProjects

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Whether it’s designing a new product or improving upon an existing work process, nothing matters more than how much it will cost the company in the end. This is where project cost management comes into play. For this reason, a budget must be determined to ensure that the allocated project costs stay in line.

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Importance of Scenario Planning and Analysis in Business

ProjectManager.com

MAY 16, 2024

Then we’ll explore scenario planning in business and project management before explaining the steps that must be taken to use this process. Scenario planning is a strategy used to consider possible future events for an organization or project to develop an effective and relevant long-term plan to respond positively to that change.

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Have You Left Anything Out of Your Project Management Plan?

Project Risk Coach

APRIL 5, 2021

Consider three things when creating a project plan: Baselines (e.g., Project Integration Management Plan Define how you will identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the project processes and activities. Project Scope Management Plan Define how you will plan, execute, and control scope.

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Project Management Basics: Definitions, Methods and Tools

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

Deliverables can be both the result of the project itself, but also the results of the process of the project, such as the project plan , reports or other documents. Projects are made up of deadlines. Each task and phase of the project has a due date, which means your project has a schedule.

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7 Tips For Better Cost Control & Expense Control

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 28, 2021

In order to understand cost control, you must first understand why it is used: monitoring expenses and identifying risks in order to increase profits. Not to be confused with cost management, cost control has its own set of objectives that can save businesses money. What Is Cost Control? Try it for yourself today!

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. The scrum master is the team expert on the process, and they are instrumental in guiding the team to optimize the use of scrum in the project.

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A Quick Guide to Project Charters: Definition, Steps & Key Elements

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The following quick guide will help give you a fuller understanding so that when you’re pitching your next project you’ll have everything you need to achieve success. What Is a Project Charter? A project charter is the statement of scope , objectives and people who are participating in a project. Build the Project Budget.

Risk Management

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10 Free Manufacturing Excel Templates

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In order to accomplish those goals and meet a tight deadline and an even tighter budget, you need these 10 free manufacturing Excel templates. But more than that, it then translates those columns of numbers into a visual timeline that you can color code to make it easy to see the different stages of your manufacturing process.

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How To Successfully Manage Your Project’s Budget

Scoro

APRIL 26, 2022

You’ve just got a project off the ground and your client is expecting great things. But do you have a firm budget management plan? Worse yet, you could end up underdelivering, because you didn’t set aside enough time for project planning and budgeting. What is a project budget? Look back at the data.

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What Is a Cost Baseline in Project Management? A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Most projects have stakeholders that expect a return on their investment. For that to happen, the project must meet its deadline and stay within budget. To create a project budget, you first need to create a cost baseline so you can compare planned spend to actual spend. Why Are They Important?

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12 Ways to Manage Project Quality Without Drama

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

But all that really comes after knowing what quality looks like on your project. The APM BOK defines project quality as: “The fitness for purpose of the degree of conformance of the outputs of a process, or the process itself to requirements.” But, projects rarely have dedicated budgets for training.

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6 Practical Ways to Actually Improve Your Cost Management

Project Risk Coach

APRIL 26, 2021

Think about it for a minute – what have you done in the last six months to improve your cost management? How many of your projects came in over budget? Let's look at some practical ways to actually improve your cost management. The project sponsor told him that he had $100,000 for the project. Great start!

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11 Examples of Project Risks And How to Avoid Them

Teamweek

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We often plan a project with this overly optimistic mindset — never considering the myriad of project risks out there. Before you know it, you’re mid-project and starting to feel the heat. Source Most projects “fail” for similar reasons. The most common types of risks can be filed under the label: “$#!%

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The 10 Project Management Knowledge Areas (PMBOK)

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Project management knowledge areas coincide with the process groups, which are project initiation, project planning , project execution, monitoring and controlling, and project closing. These are the chronological phases that every project goes through. Project Time Management.

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What Is a Program Manager? (Job Description Included)

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In project management, a program is a set of related projects that are executed simultaneously by organizations to make the most out of their resources and maximize their return on investment (ROI). A program manager oversees this process. They define the program controls, or the processes, procedures, reporting, etc.,

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Top Project Metrics You Need to Track

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To ensure that your project is meeting scheduling and budget milestones, you need to have project metrics to measure your progress and performance. Project metrics are essential to delivering a project on time and within its budget. But what are project metrics? Why are they so important to a project?

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How to Create a Project Initiation Document (Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

JULY 26, 2023

It’s similar to a project charter but more in-depth. It’s used primarily in PRINCE2 methodology, which is an acronym that stands for PRojects IN Controlled Environments. A PID is linear and process based, breaking a project into defined stages and is mostly used in the UK.

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Project Controls: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2020

Project managers are well aware of this and spend much of their time planning in order to avoid negative risk and its potential impact. There are many tools that can mitigate risk in a project, but it also takes skill in something called project controls. What Are Project Controls? Cost estimates.

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How to create a project budget

Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

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Organizational Process Assets: Definitions, Examples & Templates

What Is Positive Risk on Projects?

Project Budget Template for Excel

14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Project Management Process Groups: A Quick Guide

Risk Management Process Explained (+resources, templates)

12 Free Project Planning Templates for Excel and Word

7 Tips on Reducing Project Costs

8 Tips on Reducing Project Costs

Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

Project Financial Management: Managing Project Financials

10 Do’s & Don’ts of Project Cost Management

Best Cost Control Techniques

Project Monitoring and Control: Tools & Steps

Project Cost Estimation: Overview of the Process, Main Challenges, and Recommendations

What Is Job Costing? When to Use a Costing Sheet (Example Included)

How to Make a Contractor Payment Schedule in Construction (Template Included)

Top 10 Project Management Qualifications

Schedule of Values in Construction (Example & Template Included)

Project Performance Reporting: Key Performance Reports

Construction Cost Management: Managing Construction Costs

Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

Managing Project Assumptions & Risks

Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM): Understanding ROM Estimates

Guide to Effective Project Cost Management

Importance of Scenario Planning and Analysis in Business

Have You Left Anything Out of Your Project Management Plan?

Project Management Basics: Definitions, Methods and Tools

7 Tips For Better Cost Control & Expense Control

Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

A Quick Guide to Project Charters: Definition, Steps & Key Elements

10 Free Manufacturing Excel Templates

How To Successfully Manage Your Project’s Budget

What Is a Cost Baseline in Project Management? A Quick Guide

12 Ways to Manage Project Quality Without Drama

6 Practical Ways to Actually Improve Your Cost Management

11 Examples of Project Risks And How to Avoid Them

The 10 Project Management Knowledge Areas (PMBOK)

What Is a Program Manager? (Job Description Included)

Top Project Metrics You Need to Track

How to Create a Project Initiation Document (Template Included)

Project Controls: A Quick Guide

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