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7 Steps for a Successful Project Budget

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That’s why planning out your project budget is so important: it’s the lifeblood of the project. But first, we need to define what a project budget is. What Is a Project Budget? A project budget is the total projected costs needed to complete a project over a defined period of time. But it’s not a static document.

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11 Must-Have Project Management Excel Templates (Updated Sept. 2019)

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Visit our Templates Page and you’ll find Excel and Word templates for creating all the project documents you need to manage your project. This is a key element of planning, but it is also critical to estimating project costs and setting up a realistic schedule. This is the document in which you can collect that information.

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Cost-Plus Contract: How to Use One

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This means the owner is not agreeing to a set budget for things like materials and labor, but rather, agreeing to pay whatever it takes to get the job done. The most well-written contracts also outline things like how expenses should be documented by contractors and how any disagreements between contractor and employer should be handled.

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Cost Management Basics

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Cost management is the process by which one plans and manages the budget of a business or project. In the case of a project, it helps the project manager estimate what the project will cost and set in place controls by which they can reduce the chance of the project going over budget. Cost Management Overview.

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How to Write a Business Case

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The need for a business case is that it collects the proposal, outline, strategy and marketing plan in one document and offers a full look at how the project will benefit the organization. Document everything. Think of the business case as a document that is created incrementally to avoid spending unnecessary resources.

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Project Proposal Template

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Use this template to start a new project –outline project goals, deliverables, timelines, resources and budget. It’s a formal communications document that exists to convince your sponsor or boss that the project has a good reason for existing, in that it addresses a specific problem or exploits a unique opportunity.

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10 Latest Project Management Trends You Must Know in 2019

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It is 2019, all the companies that are trying to run their business are focusing on one thing and that is project management. There have been a lot of project management trends in 2019 that have come into the picture here. It’s 2019 and the trends in technology are changing at the speed of light. Thinking Out of the Box.

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