Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 10, 2022

There is a project management formula that will help answer those questions. In this article, I’ll explain what Estimate at Completion is for project managers, how to use it (because there are 4 different ways) and give you examples. What is EAC in project management? What is the formula for estimate at completion?

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Dear Elizabeth: I work in a technical team as a project manager. How do you deal with a team that refuses to estimate how long tasks will take? It is difficult to estimate when the task is too big. If the tasks are too chunky, it will be too challenging to come up with anything like a realistic estimate.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2022

Software development estimation is an essential part of many projects. Despite its importance, software development estimation is often overlooked. Maybe that’s because it’s difficult to estimate properly. Let’s explore how software development estimation works and its techniques and tools. Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 21, 2019

Good cost estimation is essential for keeping a project under budget. Many costs can appear over the life cycle of a project, and an accurate estimation method can be the difference between a successful plan and a failed one. Estimation, however, is easier said than done. Projects bring risks, and risks bring unexpected costs.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 3, 2022

Construction estimating is one of the most important parts of landing a construction project. That’s why you need construction estimating software to make your forecast as accurate as possible. Making the decision to get construction estimating software is the easy part. What Is Construction Estimating?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Estimation is a complementary practice Scrum Teams use in Product D evelopment. The purpose of estimation is to provide a rough idea of how much effort, time, and budget are needed to complete specific features or PBI- Product Backlog Item of the product.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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 planning templates are part of project management. Without a plan, projects are in trouble. Why Use Project Planning Templates?

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Risk and uncertainty are inherent parts of all project work, making project risk management an important topic for teams to address. When studies tell us that easily half of all IT projects run over budget and past deadline , we see how easily risk turns into real trouble for projects and their organizations.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Whether you’re managing a project in construction or manufacturing, keeping costs down is paramount. This is why in project management and business in general cost control is so important. Learn how cost control can help you better manage construction or manufacturing projects. The lower your costs, the higher your profits.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 16, 2024

Once you create this Excel project timeline, you can use this template to estimate future project timelines using project tasks and due dates. Get your free Timeline Template Use this free Timeline Template for Excel to manage your projects better.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Gantt charts have been a fundamental project management tool for over a century, and it’s easy to understand why. The only difference from a Gantt chart used in any other industry is that it manages construction tasks. ProjectManager’s construction Gantt charts help you plan, manage and track projects in real time.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Then, you can estimate their costs and add them to determine how much money you’ll need to finance your business operations. Google Sheets helps with collaboration but it isn’t a true project management software. Then you can use ProjectManager to track work and monitor costs as they occur.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

Project management is all about solving problems before they happen. That’s why you make a plan, schedule tasks and monitor the work to make sure you’re staying on track. Let’s look at 15 project management challenges and how to deal with them. Let’s look at 15 project management challenges and how to deal with them.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2024

Once one understands what resource requirements are in project management, next there is estimating what those resources will be and managing them. What Are Resource Requirements in Project Management? Knowing one’s resource requirements will also help project managers to get the most out of their resources.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Everything you need to know about project management terms is here in one list! Check back often, as this list of project management terminology is ever-evolving, just like project management itself! Check back often, as this list of project management terminology is ever-evolving, just like project management itself!

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Workload analysis is how project managers figure out how many team members they will need to properly execute a project. Being able to see the workload of your team during the execution phase of the project is part of the monitoring and controlling phase. Project management software helps with workload analysis and capacity planning.

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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. This is done by using a project management maturity model. What Is Project Management Maturity?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 16, 2024

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. We’ll get to that in a moment as well as define project pipeline management. ProjectManager’s roadmaps help you manage your project pipeline.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Managing information costs and managing information security for those costs are part of making an IT budget. Planning and managing these resource costs in an IT budget can be facilitated by project management software. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts help you plan, manage and track IT costs.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In this article, we’re addressing a common question in modern project management: Do we need risk management in agile projects? Do agile projects have risks associated with them? And do we want to let those risks run wild without any effort to contain them? Why is Risk Management in Agile Projects Even a Question?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Whether you’re interested in a career in construction or looking to fill an open position in your construction management company, there are a lot of entry points. We explain what each is and offer a salary average to see how much you can expect to earn or pay for one of these construction management roles.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 27, 2023

It can be used to communicate what’s needed in the project, the costs associated with the activities and the management of payments. But what is a schedule of values and why is it such an essential construction project management document? ProjectManager’s Gantt charts manage your human and nonhuman resources.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2023

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. We’ll go over those definitions and explain the construction cost management process so you can manage projects better.

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WorkOtter

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Developing better project management skills is key to ensuring the success of future projects. Resource estimation is an integral part of project management that often gets overlooked. Here’s your guide to resource estimation in project management and other factors, such as resource costs.

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ProjectManager.com

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. ProjectManager has real-time dashboards to monitor project costs.—

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 4, 2023

In the world of project management, troubled projects can be a source of frustration, stress, and disappointment for both teams and stakeholders. Inadequate Planning and Estimation Insufficient planning and inaccurate estimation of resources, time, and budget are common culprits in troubled projects.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

To understand what project health is let’s define it and the areas that should be monitored to make sure your project is healthy. As we’ll see in a moment, this requires a close monitoring of various elements of the project. Project management software acts as the thermometer for the project. What Is Project Health? Learn more.

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Growing Agile

MAY 12, 2022

Anyone who knows me knows I’m not a fan of estimation. He managed to manually crank it a couple of times as a quick fix, but wasn’t sure if it would break again. In the end I was happy with what he’d done as my main worry was the risk of a damaged engine, and I picked the car up the same day I dropped it off.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Effective project monitoring helps keep the moving parts of a project flowing. But maintaining one eye on the broader picture is challenging for even the most experienced project managers. In this guide, you’ll learn what project monitoring is, the three key constraints, and how to monitor them effectively.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Whether you call it project financial management or project accounting, managing a project’s finances is essential to delivering a successful project. There’s a lot of planning, managing and tracking involved. But what exactly is financial project management? What Is Project Financial Management?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2024

Finally, we’ll see how project management software allows you to better manage your workforce. Strategic workforce planning is used by an organization or its project management office (PMO) to achieve its long-term plans. Both of these are ways to measure resource management and are interrelated.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2024

Project managers are constantly making requests to the project management office (PMO). It’s used by PMOs to manage the requests they get from the many projects they’re overseeing. PMOs can use project management software to review and decide on whether to accept, reject or defer the request. That’s normal.

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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? Let's look at some practical ways to actually improve your cost management. Consider John, a savvy project manager, who was asked to manage a project aimed at replacing a dated network system. We zigzag, don't we?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

What do you need to know to succeed at project management? While there’s some truth to that joke, it’s not helpful to the student or the experienced professional who is looking for a way to understand the myriad responsibilities of being a project manager. What is PMBOK in Project Management? Project Integration Management.

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MPUG

MAY 17, 2021

Imagine you are managing a large project, which is strategically important and complex. At the outset, you realize there will be a number of risks, which if not managed well, could paralyze the outcome and have negative impacts on the project objectives. Will a software tool for only project management meet your needs?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 28, 2024

Notion is work management software that helps teams from across industries such as product development, engineering or marketing to facilitate team communication, manage tasks and create simple project timelines. While Notion has project management features, is there a Notion Gantt chart? We’ll get to that in a moment.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2024

This article reviews and explains the 10 project management Knowledge Areas from the PMBOK® Guide -- Sixth Edition. All the things you need to know and do for successful risk management, for example, are bundled under the Risk Management Knowledge Area. How many knowledge areas are there in project management?

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