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

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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? Timely executed.

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How to Manage Project Cash Flow

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Projects cost money. Those funds have a life cycle of their own and project managers must understand how those costs come in and out of the project and organization. That process is called project cash flow. We’ll look at project cash flow, what it is and how to calculate and manage it.

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Guide to Effective Project Cost Management

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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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Cost Performance Index (CPI) In Project Management

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Projects cost money. But what’s harder to discern is if the project is worth the investment. The last thing stakeholders want is to discover the project isn’t financially effective. That’s where the cost performance index comes in. We’ll discuss what the cost performance index does and how it does it below.

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RFI in Construction: A Quick Guide for Contractors

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The general contractor will create project plans and schedules with Gantt charts , but subcontractors need different tools to execute their work. ProjectManager is award-winning construction project management software that has multiple project views that update in real time to foster collaboration.

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12 Free Project Planning Templates for Excel and Word

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Project planning templates help reduce work as they’re preformatted so you don’t have to always start from scratch. But using project planning templates is, at best, only a starting point. To ensure your plans are well-managed during the execution of your project you’ll want to upgrade to project management software.

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Project Budget Template for Google Sheets

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Task Assignee Understanding who’s responsible for each project task is important to estimate labor costs, as different members of your team will likely have different hourly rates. Labor Costs Labor costs are one of the key project costs that should go into a project budget.

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