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Project Cost Estimation: Overview of the Process, Main Challenges, and Recommendations

Epicflow Blog

Estimation of project cost is one of the core practices of the project initiation stage, which becomes the basis for the approved project budget. At the same time, the forecasted cost should not be too overestimated or underestimated. What helps make cost estimation simple and efficient?

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The Best Wrike Alternatives You Need to Try in 2020

ProjectManager.com

For example, Wrike doesn’t have dashboards that can track progress across a program or portfolio of projects, nor can it deal with expenses and budgeting or manage resources. It’s a huge help when monitoring and tracking projects. ProjectManager.com compares estimated costs against your actual costs in real time.

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7 Critical Project Management Skills That Will Help You Thrive In 2020

Taskque

Yes, having project management certifications and hands-on experience in managing projects under your belt is important, but it is the project management skills that differentiate great project managers from good ones. Want to succeed as a project manager in 2020? Leadership. Negotiations.

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2020 Challenges and Trends in Construction

Epicflow Blog

Virtual and Augmented Reality in Construction: Customers’ Satisfaction, Workers’ Safety, and Better Project Management Augmented and virtual reality are widely used in many industries, and lately have become quite popular with construction companies. . They use VR to let their potential customers see the project and estimate it.

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Project Budget Template for Excel

ProjectManager.com

A project budget contains the financial details of your project, including the estimates of all the money you need to layout to lead a successful project, from resources to materials. Monitor project expenses with this Excel budget template. ProjectManager.com’s Project Budget Template.

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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Monitoring the project’s finances and cost throughout the project lifecycle is a key responsibility. Project stakeholders are particularly sensitive to cost and potential overruns, especially is the project’s results impact their budget. Here is a list of common project cost risks.

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Project Management Challenges with Artificial Intelligence

International Institute for Learning

As technology increases within the next two decades, AI is expected to replace humans in many of the simple and mundane tasks that are part of project and program management activities (Grace et al., Marr, 2020, and Dalcher, 2022). As stated by Gupta (2020): We cannot discount the human touch aspect when we are dealing with humans.