Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 13, 2020

This is a guest article by author Edoardo Binda Zane. We start with 5 steps for how to put a proposal budget together and then Edoardo shares a worked (fictional) example to show you what the budget would look like once it is completed. A proposal budget is similar to a project budget, but with a very different goal.

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Planview

JULY 29, 2021

Effective project budget tracking is essential to ensure that project costs do not spiral out of control — and potentially threaten project success. This informative and easy-to-read article explores the basics of project budget tracking , including best practices and a 7-phase methodology. Estimate Budgets.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 20, 2024

Construction projects are structured with schedules, budgets and resource allocation. To help you once you break ground on your construction project, we’ll throw in some free construction project management templates on estimating, scheduling and budgeting. What Is a Preconstruction Meeting? so you can forecast costs better.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Accurate construction cost estimates are crucial for successful project planning and execution. A well-developed budget lays a solid foundation for managing costs and ensures that projects are completed within financial constraints. Moreover, accurate cost estimates play a crucial role in financial planning and control.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 28, 2019

After publishing my article entitled Evaluating Risks Using Qualitative Risk Analysis , I received questions on how to determine project budget reserves. Project Budget Reserves: Questions and Answers. Imagine a project budget with no reserves. Question #2 How do we estimate a contingency reserve? 100,000 x 10%).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 10, 2023

Estimating for success Maybe best of all, Moore talks about range-based estimates – a topic I’m very interested in. Moore explains that estimates are biased towards the initial values because people don’t adjust their estimates again after making that initial decision. This book review first appeared in 2016.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

The importance of a project strategy is simple: it helps deliver projects on time, within budget and aligned with larger strategic goals. Project Manager: This is a professional responsible for leading the project, making its schedule and budget as well as leading and managing the project team. That’s the project scope.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Using project planning templates can help you schedule tasks, estimate budgets and allocate resources. They organize your tasks, help you write a project charter, come up with an accurate budget and so much more. That’s how you deliver on time and within budget. Project Budget Template All projects cost money.

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Leading Answers

AUGUST 25, 2020

Project managers generally like plans and estimates so we can forecast when things should be done and how much they may cost. " So, when project managers hear about ideas such as "let's stop estimating," it can trigger a knee-jerk reaction. It sounds lazy and avoiding the hard work of having to estimate.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2024

Clarifying information that wasn’t included or unclear in the scope of the construction contract is critical to delivering a project on time, within budget and meeting quality standards. The RFQ asks how a vendor or contractor should handle a specific aspect of a project, from cost estimation to work descriptions.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Top-down estimating is a form of estimation where existing knowledge of similar projects is used in the estimation process to produce a ballpark figure for the total cost. Like other methods to estimate a new project’s cost , top-down estimation has advantages and disadvantages. What is top-down estimating?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2024

Resource management is difficult because work is unpredictable and people aren’t very good at estimating! Resolve by using forecasting and capacity planning reports, getting good estimates from resources and leaders on how long work will take and when it can start. Why is effective resource management difficult?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2022

We have forecast and actual dates, timesheets, budgets, databases of lessons learned , risks, issues and changes. For example, imagine reviewing estimates from the project team. For example, imagine reviewing estimates from the project team. Would you like to add 20% to this estimate? Yes, I would.

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MPUG

JANUARY 8, 2024

The solution, of course, is estimating. There is a whole science to estimation, and it would be possible to go very deeply into this. But before we start, let’s tackle the Estimation Elephant in the Room…. The estimation techniques they use are a deliberate trade-off between speed and accuracy.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Unfortunately I’m not able to say, “I’m struggling with Excel right now, I really don’t have these budgeting skills, so we won’t bother to have a budget tracker on this project.” Budget management is definitely a skill to develop because it is useful in future roles too – say, if you move into a role with a P&L responsibility.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Parametric estimation is a crucial estimation technique in project management. That’s because parametric estimations are highly accurate and take some guesswork from your estimation process. What is parametric estimating? The more granular the parameter, the more accurate the estimate.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

This is a guest article by author Edoardo Binda Zane. We start with 5 steps for how to put a proposal budget together and then Edoardo shares a worked (fictional) example to show you what the budget would look like once it is completed. A proposal budget is similar to a project budget, but with a very different goal.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 1, 2022

Project cost estimation can be challenging, especially when the project is complicated and has many moving parts. In this guide, you’ll learn: What a project cost estimate is Why most project cost estimates are terrible How to create an accurate project estimate What to do after creating your project cost estimate.

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Epicflow Blog

JULY 5, 2022

Estimation of project cost is one of the core practices of the project initiation stage, which becomes the basis for the approved project budget. However, the main challenge of this process is that it has to be performed under conditions of uncertainty – you can forecast only the approximate budget you’re going to spend on a project.

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

“ I’ve done this a million times–let’s skip estimating just this once.”. You rush through the beginning estimates only to miss deadlines, blow budgets, and draw raised eyebrows from clients. In this guide we’ll cover: What are project estimation techniques? What are project estimation techniques? Cost estimations.

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Project Risk Coach

DECEMBER 4, 2022

This article will examine the five techniques for risk identification. Ideally, the risks are listed in categories such as schedule, budget, quality, and scope. It is essential for any project manager to know what risks might affect a project and navigate them. Techniques for Risk Identification 1.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 24, 2022

Here are some cost-per-meeting examples: #1 : A company with 25,000 employees in which each employee attends 100 meetings per year (2 meetings per week) at an estimated cost of $500 per meeting. Total meetings = 2,500,000 Estimated cost per meeting = $500 TOTAL MEETING COST PER YEAR = $1,250,000,000 (over 1 BILLION!). #2

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

In this article we’ll look at the types of artifacts in project management, typical documents for each type. Artifacts are categorized in the PMBOK® Guide – 7 th edition into 9 different types and that’s what this article is going to look at. The article will be updated in due course. What is an artifact?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

Add project management software or testing tools (or whatever else you need) to the project budget. Make sure that you are thinking realistically about estimates and the likelihood of risk affecting your ability to deliver. But, projects rarely have dedicated budgets for training. Training could include technical skills.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

In project management, one of the key factors that contributes to the successful completion of a project is a well-structured and comprehensive budget plan. A project budget plan serves as a roadmap for financial control, enabling organizations to allocate resources effectively, monitor expenses, and ensure the project stays on track.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Are you a project manager looking to download a project budget template? Creating a project budget is relatively straightforward. But not everyone can manage the budget of a project successfully. Use this free project budget spreadsheet to track the financial details of your next client project. Estimates and actuals.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 3, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn about 20 things to include in a project plan. For example, your project plan template might include your approach to status reporting, whether you are going to use Earned Value or not, what software you are going to use to manage the project budget and schedule and so on. That’s a comprehensive list!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 29, 2022

While these aren’t the sexy parts of an IT project, missing these requirements can still delay your project or put it over budget. Make identifying the sources for these requirements part of your planning process, and ensure that your project budget and labor estimates reflect the level of effort required.

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

Inaccurate time estimation is the cause of 25% of failed projects. Learning how to estimate time for a project is tricky, but critical to its success. In this guide we’ll go over: What is time estimating in project management? Why is estimating time for tasks important? What is time estimating in project management?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

In this article we’ll look at the types of artifacts in project management, typical documents for each type. Artifacts in the PMBOK Guide – Seventh Edition Artifacts are categorized in the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh edition into 9 different types and that’s what this article is going to look at. What is an artifact?

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 24, 2022

In my previous article , I provided an overview of my current personal project of preparing for and running for election as one the city councilors in Welland, Ontario. Based on the time and budget remaining, certain work packages may be added, dropped or reprioritized. These tactics will leave me with just under 25% of my budget.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

No Cost or Resource Tracking Features: Projects are expensive and costs must be closely monitored to make sure you don’t overspend the budget. Set a Project Schedule Baseline A project baseline is an estimate of the time, scope or cost of a project. That’s a big problem, especially if you want to deliver your project within its budget.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As well as a baseline, you can track SPI, EV, and progress against budget. The time sheet report gives you data by user, tag, month, item and by time estimated, spent, variances, and cost. That means you can see efficiency against what you estimated – helpful for velocity management, even if you are doing it in an informal way.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

Budgets are also part of a project. A project budget outlines these expenditures. That is, projects must come in within budget, be delivered on time and meet the agreed-upon scope. Accordingly, if you’re short on time, then the budget or scope will have to change. All projects are carried out with certain constraints.

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Workamajig

AUGUST 6, 2019

Mastering the art of creating a project budget is a crucial skill for any agency. Learn how to create a project budget in our new article. So much of your success as an agency depends on getting the project budget right. Creating the perfect project budget is partly a matter of experience, and partly a matter of process.

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Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

But does the complementary hypothesis of adding funds to a project which is forecast as completing over budget will make it go even more over budget also hold true? If you liked this article, why not read my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 26, 2021

In project management, the RFQ is used as a mechanism in procurement and helps the project managers meet the goals of their budget. You have also started work or even completed a budget, so you know roughly how much of a financial commitment you’re able to make. Project Budget Template. Why You Need a RFQ Template. That depends.

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