ProjectManager.com

APRIL 29, 2022

Project managers know the importance of having project documentation. Project documents must be accurate and constantly updated to keep current with the project. Creating and managing project documentation throughout the project life cycle is critical for project success, but where to start?

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 5, 2021

Consider three things when creating a project plan: Baselines (e.g., Project Scope Management Plan Define how you will plan, execute, and control scope. Project Time Management Plan Define how you will plan, execute, and control the schedule. Determine your project life cycle.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 27, 2023

Controlling risk is one of the most important areas of project management. Project managers need to know how to identify, track and mitigate project risk. Let’s learn what is project risk, some common examples and how can you manage it. What Is Project Risk?

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Epicflow Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

This article is inspired by the webinar featuring Epicflow co-founder Jan Willem Tromp and professor Mario Vanhoucke based on his latest book “The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”.

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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. Project Budget Template All projects cost money.

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Planview

JULY 29, 2021

Effective project budget tracking is essential to ensure that project costs do not spiral out of control — and potentially threaten project success. This informative and easy-to-read article explores the basics of project budget tracking , including best practices and a 7-phase methodology. Estimate Budgets.

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Resource Guru

APRIL 13, 2023

And that may be true, but here at Resource Guru, we say that a watched project never fails. Monitoring and controlling a project is an essential part of any successful project process. So come with us as we go down the rabbit hole of monitoring and controlling, and show you just how important it really is.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 27, 2022

But creating a detailed budget is key to successful construction project management. One way to control your project billing is by defining the hard costs vs soft costs on a construction project. When it comes to budgeting, hard costs are easier to estimate. They can occur anytime in the life cycle of a project.

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PM Basics

OCTOBER 28, 2022

You’ll get into the implementation phase of a project at some point. You need to start to control project scope right away. I’ve been managing software development projects for more than 11 years. Controlling the project scope is arguably the most challenging project management activity.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Though this process starts at the beginning of the project, it’s an iterative process and continues throughout the project life cycle. Finally, risk management is the overall process that project managers use to minimize and manage risk. Activity duration estimates. Cost estimates. Procurements.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While project managers haven’t figured out how to bend time and space to their bidding, there are time management techniques that you can use to manage the time you spend on tasks. No, it’s not science fiction, it’s project time management. What Is Project Time Management? But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Try It Free!

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 20, 2023

That’s why most general contractors use construction project management software when managing their projects and controlling construction submittals. ProjectManager is award-winning construction project management software that allows you to share files and add comments in real time.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2023

There are downloadable templates for every phase in the project life cycle. This costs money so there’s also a place to estimate the budget, add a risk log and lay out the change management process. Project Timeline Template Part of the plan, perhaps one of the most critical aspects, is the schedule.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices. Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 16, 2024

Projects have a beginning, middle and end. That’s called the project life cycle. When you’re a project management office (PMO) or program or portfolio manager, you’re going to have to deal with multiple projects in various stages of the project pipeline. What is a project pipeline?

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Techno-PM

OCTOBER 18, 2022

What is Project Controls? Project controls are the systems and processes used to measure, monitor, and manage project performance. They help project managers and teams track progress, identify, and resolve issues, and keep projects on schedule and within budget. Download Project Management Templates

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

Also, if the artifact is the result of some other project management method or tactic, it won’t be mentioned here. For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact.

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 30, 2021

Discover the exact, proven system I use to engage stakeholders, improve collaboration, and initiate projects. One of the challenges in projects is estimating the duration. Start with an analogous estimate. Get actual durations from other project managers for similar projects. Think about your needs.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 3, 2022

Talk briefly about your approach to delivery, what project life cycle you are going to follow, and the project planning process. A complex project might need an appendix that sets out the full detail, but a summary is probably good enough for most project plans. Monitor and control methods.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2022

Everything starts with careful planning, which sets the stage for the execution phase where estimations, plans and schedules guide the project team as they complete tasks and deliverables. Pre-Project Evaluation. In a sense, you’re pre-evaluating your project when you write your project charter to pitch to the stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

Also, if the artifact is the result of some other project management method or tactic, it won’t be mentioned here. For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 21, 2018

For example, a project manager can compare actual completion dates of activities to an approved schedule baseline. Without a baseline, how will you monitor and control your projects? Project Scope Statement – describe the products, project work, major deliverables, assumptions, and constraints.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 22, 2021

Resources are the largest contributor to successful project delivery , and project managers spend significant time planning and managing their activities. Both resource and project managers work in tandem to develop resourcing strategies for projects. Challenges of Resource Management in Projects. Essential read.

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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 27, 2022

Successful projects can make you feel extraordinary, while failed ones can leave you feeling like the villain. At times, it can seem like projects are doomed from the start, and the outcome is completely outside of your control. One of the biggest missteps a project manager can make is delivering the project over budget.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

New opportunities may surface at any point in the project life cycle. Think Outside the Box When identifying opportunities, look at changing dynamics outside of your project. Quantitative analysis : Calculate the potential benefit by multiplying the probability times the estimated value.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 6, 2022

A project execution plan is a document used to define how you will execute a project. That should be obvious from the name, but it also addresses the project scheduling, monitoring and controlling needed to bring the project deliverables. Monitor and Control the Project Execution Plan. Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Making a time estimation of how long that work will take and the resources involved. Everyone can be part of the process and once you collect all the tasks needed to reach your final deliverable, just add the duration and they populate a project timeline. Further, control workflow by breaking the larger project into smaller phases.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 26, 2022

In some cases, the entire project might be following a process where design, scope, cost, and time scales were fixed at the very beginning. Or it could be a first-time project where estimating how long each phase will really take is hard work. Estimate work and share the schedule. That’s tough to do!

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

That’s what PMIS comes in, which is an acronym for project management information system. A PMIS enables an organized and controlled flow of information, so nothing is siphoned off or misplaced. A project management information system (PMIS) is how information needed to run a project is organized. What Is PMIS?

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ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 18, 2020

According to the PMBOK guide, which is considered the bible for project managers, project management is scientifically done by managing project documents through 49 processes that are grouped into five project phases. . The activities are then sequenced, and the duration required for each activity is estimated.

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ProProfs Project Management

MAY 6, 2020

Project time management refers to skills, tools, and techniques, which businesses use to manage time while working on project activities. Time’ and ‘Deliverables’ are the two major factors that you need to take care of during the project life cycle. What Are the Main Processes in Project Time Management.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

It is one of the most difficult processes in which to plan, control, maintain, and achieve objectives. Read on for steps you can take to improve resource management on your projects! Include change control procedures in your methodology; you will need them in the different phases of the project.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Work Breakdown Structure – create a hierarchical decomposition or outline of the scope of work to achieve the project objectives and to create the deliverables. Cost Baseline – approved version of the project budget. Define how you will plan, execute, and control scope. Project Time Management Plan.

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MPUG

JULY 24, 2023

EVM concepts were initiated over fifty years ago by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to support their control processes with large defense acquisition programs. Air Force defined the criteria for their acquisition projects which included the basic concepts of EVM. In 1965, the U.S.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 26, 2020

A project manager is a person who runs the project from the very beginning up to its completion. Therefore, they’re responsible for the whole project’s life cycle. So what does a project consist of? Project Life Cycle and Different Levels of PM’s Responsibilities. Self-Control.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A rough order of magnitude estimate, also known as ROM, is an estimation of a project’s level of effort and cost to complete. ROM estimates take place early in a project life cycle and guide strategy and planning choices. Estimating a ROM is often thought of as an art.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Even when you tell yourself that “this time is going to be different,” — but project costs somehow still manage to get out of control? Only 43% of projects are “mostly or always” completed on budget. Let’s talk about project cost management. ??. Why is project cost management important?

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