ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Subpar bidding tool: Users find Procore’s bidding and estimating functionality problematic, which has been brought to the attention of the software. It’s especially useful for scheduling and has cost-estimating features. It is built to serve heavy civil construction estimating, operations and business intelligence.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

They help with prioritizing projects, providing governance guidelines and ensure that projects are beneficial to the organization by aligning with larger strategic goals. Estimate Resources Resources are the people, equipment and materials you need to complete the project. This will inform your schedule and budget.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2024

ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that estimates project costs and creates budgets to show the viability of the request. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts help you estimate costs and create budgets. Expected project benefits: Forecast the return on investment or estimated revenue expected.

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The Lazy Project Manager

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Project Business is an industry just like Retail and Manufacturing because projects are their primary business function. The same goes for a Manufacturing Business. It doesn’t matter what products you make, if you manufacture it, you are a Manufacturing Business. It doesn’t matter what goods you sell.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

This is true across all industries, from construction to manufacturing, professional services to IT and, really any organization that is managing projects. Cost Management This process works to better estimate, budget and control costs throughout a project’s life cycle and keep expenditures within the approved budget.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 12, 2023

Portfolio management: OPC offers a portfolio view of all projects and programs to help users manage multiple projects’ pipelines, estimated budgets and capital spend requirements. It’s made for large and small projects alike and has been used in industries ranging from construction to manufacturing, energy and IT.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Baseline A baseline is an estimate of the project’s scope, schedule and costs that is created during the planning stage. Cost overrun This is the actual cost that exceeds the estimated cost in the budget, also known as a cost increase or budget overrun.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 30, 2017

One of the 4 summary root causes of project performance failures is Unrealistic Cost and Schedule Estimates based on inadequate risk-adjusted growth models. One notion in a governance paradigm is It's Not Your Money . If you have no uncertainty, then estimates provide no value. Tools are available for each of these.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 29, 2021

Poor estimating. Sometimes the estimates are just rubbish. More and more, estimating is getting harder (in my opinion). Sometimes the estimates are wrong; other times something else happens to disrupt your estimate. Either way, estimating issues are a risk to your schedule. Governance risk.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Paul Boos has a post about estimating and makes a case for the Principles of when NOT to estimate. This struck a cord around a bigger topic - the inversion of estimating. When should we NOT estimate? Then on to the original conjecture for No Estimates from Paul's post. That is, to make decision with “No estimates”.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Generally, the work order also includes instructions on what the job is, estimation of how much it will cost, deadline for completion, who is assigned and any other pertinent information. Work orders are often used in manufacturing, but they’re also common in the service and construction industry.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population. The estimate can also be produced parametrically or through a simulation (Monte Carlo is common, but Method of Moments is another we use). . Estimates can be about the past, present, or future.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 18, 2023

For example, if two activities need to happen in sequence—such as designing a product before manufacturing it—fast-tracking could involve starting both activities at once by having designers work on one part while engineers start working on another part simultaneously.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

A nice conversation on twitter about estimates on software brought up the topic of estimates as commitments. The #NoEstimates advocates see estimates as making commitments. Yes, commitments are made when we estimate. oo (an estimate) with a 15% error band (an estimate). . Estimates are not needed.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. COSMIC Software Estimation Approach,” Alain Abran, ICEAA Workshop, Portland Oregon, June 6?9, Estimating Probable System Cost,” Stephen A. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The behavioral aspects of these decisions involve individuals, organizations, processes, procedures, and governance principles. . You're NOT going to increase the probability of success in the presence of uncertainty without making estimates of the aleatory and epistemic uncertainties the create project risk. Related articles.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 22, 2018

Once completed, of course, the Panama Canal became operational, and once developed, the Boeing 787 went into service with many more being manufactured as I write this. In short, the design and construction of the Panama Canal, and the design and manufacture of the Boeing 787 were projects.

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Project Life Cycle Manufacturing Governance Government 88

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 28, 2016

estimates are the smell of dysfunction, so let's not estimate and the dysfunction will disappear." Because "we're just developers who can't even make high level estimates how much it will cost and we work for bonehead managers who can't tell the difference between a good estimate and a bad estimate," doesn't have the same ring.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 20, 2018

Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Project, Products, and Processes , Richard D. Stutzke is a starting point for estimating software projects. I recommend it for anyone starting out in the estimating business all the way to seasoned veterans. Project decisions in the presence of uncertainty cannot be made without estimates.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Project Governance. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate. Estimating and Reporting Physical Percent Complete on Agile Projects , DHS Cost Analysis Stakeholder Working Group, June 26, 2017.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2022

Even while the concept is deeply flawed, it’s important you understand that people use the model in an attempt to solve real business challenges — specifically financial governance and resource planning. Product Development is not like manufacturing; it’s not like an assembly line or recipe. A Little History.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

There are two primary components to managing a project’s time: time tracking and estimation. But estimating the time each task will take is a strategic component for managing projects. However, ClickUp does not have time estimation features to predict how long projects will take. Ranged Estimation. LiquidPlanner.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

But with changes come challenges: as the smart technology becomes mainstream, it becomes clear that it will reduce the number of workers required for certain tasks both in manufacturing and in other sectors of human employment. All major car manufacturers are headed towards electric and self-driving cars these days.

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Agilemania

MARCH 3, 2022

Draft governing policies to aid agile-based practices . Mentor teams on Agile approaches to estimation, planning, and story mapping. Makes the transition smooth by teaching them to develop the agile mindset . Train Scrum Masters, Kanban Leads, and Product Owners . Train teams to adopt the agile working practices .

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Productivity Land

MARCH 21, 2023

It is estimated that the data science market in the US will reach $116 billion by 2027 from an estimated $31 billion in 2019. The market is also being driven by the increasing demand for data-driven solutions in various industries, such as healthcare, finance, retail, and manufacturing.

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A good chunk of the ERP market is dominated by buyers from manufacturing companies. You can also take a look at Enlyft’s list of ERPs and their estimated market shares here. Estimating the time your team will actually spend on the software can be a helpful number to weigh against the price tag.

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TrustRadius Project Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A good chunk of the ERP market is dominated by buyers from manufacturing companies. . You can also take a look at Enlyft’s list of ERPs and their estimated market shares here. . Estimating the time your team will actually spend on the software can be a helpful number to weigh against the price tag. Future Growth Considerations.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 62

Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The #NoEstimates Manifesto - Actually restates Best Practice for estimating and making decisions with those estimates. . Deterministic estimates are point estimates and Point estimates without a Variance are of little value in the presence of uncertainty. Estimates make use of a broad range of models and data .

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Techno-PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While prevention tactics depend solely on accidental occurrences of risk factors, preparedness and recovery depend on building contingency plans, robust budget estimation , and management skills. Better Governance It is natural to outsource certain aspects of your supply chain to third parties.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

The conference committee encourages everyone to prepare papers on one of the relevant topics, among which there are: Managing people, Managing projects, Software management activities, Project execution and monitoring, Empirical estimation technique, Critical path analysis. Pricing: starting from 100 EUR. Pricing: available upon request.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Project baseline, budget estimates accuracy, schedule and project phasing, effective project performance (reviews) and measurement - 8.96%. Full understanding, and early engagement, of host government environment and institutional requirements 0.78%. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 5, 2017

We're working on a White Paper for the Joint Space Cost Council which is an organization composed of government (NRO, NASA, USAF, and others) and industry representatives with an interest in space. And to make those risk-informed decisions in the presence of reducible and irreducible uncertainty we need to ESTIMATE. Cost Impacts.

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Epicflow Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

” Eli Schragenheim The lesson is: when you ask for a clear one-number estimation, without defining the level of common and expected uncertainty, then you either might face big surprises or face frequent occurrences, where the project/mission finished exactly on time.

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Meisterplan

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Estimating work effort is challenging. Management or government interference hinders success. . Bard Manufacturing Company. Need more project managers to lead portfolio expansion. Lack of resources. Lack of resource balancing and capacity planning. Can’t reconcile money and resources. Low stakeholder involvement.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 22, 2023

” Here are the key components: Strategic alignment Governance Prioritization Risk management Resource allocation Together, these components help you achieve your business objectives by making informed decisions, prioritizing effectively, managing potential risks, and using resources (both human and non-human) efficiently.

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