Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 6, 2022

In this article, I’ll share a step-by-step way to prioritizing your projects so all stakeholders understand what projects can move ahead and which ones aren’t going to start now (or ever). You may opt to do the top 10 projects, or as many projects as you can do until you hit your budget of $x. When will the project finish ?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Project initiation templates. You can download templates from within the article. How to plan a budget for a proposal with a step-by-step guide : You can download a proposal template from this article. It also has a step-by-step guide for working out your budget for a proposal.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

As long as you know where you want to get to overall, you can broadly make sure that you achieve that with the resources and budget that you have. A project is a single initiative where a team works to deliver a particular output. Pin for later reading: This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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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. A version of this article first appeared in Business & Industry in 2019. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. Give us more data. Projects generate huge amounts of data.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 11, 2022

Here’s how to showcase your projects on your CV (as we call a resume here in the UK, and I’ll use both terms interchangeably in this article) to make it clear what you are capable of. If you work in legal project management , talk about your process improvement initiatives or projects relevant to the job you are going for today.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2024

People will be assigned to lower priority work, meaning you don’t have the right skills or people available to work on your strategic initiatives. I was working with a particular department and there had been such a level of underinvestment that when I told them the project budget for this work, they nearly fell off their chairs!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

All projects have stakeholders, even the very smallest initiatives. Need some help with the project budget? This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management What is stakeholder management? You can involve your stakeholders in any number of project tasks and delegate all kinds of things to them.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that helps you create timelines and budgets for your organization’s projects and processes. It’s more detailed than a strategy map as it shows key strategic goals, initiatives and timelines, highlighting dependencies and potential obstacles.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

How can I stay within the budget with the available resource mix? Enterprises fail to deliver projects on time and within budget without the right forecasting tools. Deloitte Global Cost Survey reveals, “ Cost reduction is the most significant initiative for any business.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

Budgets are also part of a project. A project budget outlines these expenditures. Initiation: Here’s where you set out the project scope , the goals, the organization of the project, its business case, its constraints, who the stakeholders are, what the risks are, the project controls, the reporting framework, etc.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Initiation This is when it is decided whether the project is worth the investment. The project charter is written and a project initiation document is also created. Here the project scope is defined and a budget is created. Then analyzing the data to determine objectives, creating a timeline and budget.

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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? Strategy artifacts.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 24, 2023

From examples of project activities in a business versus operational activities to strategies for balancing projects and operations simultaneously — this article will help you understand the differences and consider the similarities. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2023

You can’t expect your business to thrive if you are working on a shoestring budget. They are not only responsible for making sure projects are completed on time and within budget, but they also work with clients and manage other project managers. A version of this article first appeared in 2017.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A well-developed budget lays a solid foundation for managing costs and ensures that projects are completed within financial constraints. Understanding the Basics of Construction Budgeting Accurate cost estimation is the cornerstone of construction budgeting.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Put a rough project cost estimate together and send it to the client for approval–poof, you’ve got a winning project budget. Anyone can create a client budget for a project. But it’s about time you started ruling your budget–not the other way around. Project estimate vs. project budget. You know that saying….

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

For simplicity, and because the UK government uses the terminology of gate review, that’s what I’m going with in this article. PRINCE2® requires at least two management stages: one to initiate the project and then however many you need after that to do the rest of the work. Benefits of gate reviews. The project lifecycle and stages.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

6: Review the budget Is the budget approved? Action if there is no budget plan or information: Back to the PMO or your Finance team. Go back to the PMO, they should be prioritizing initiatives. Pin for later reading: This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management How do you spend it?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 10, 2022

Now we’ve approved the budget and the project has started, how much will it really cost? What has that done to the budget? Given that plenty of studies show cost overruns, some finding that 9 out of 10 projects go over budget (averaging 28% overspent), it’s not surprising that project sponsors want to keep a tight grip on costs.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 24, 2023

Ideally, you’d be able to provide a definitive estimate, carefully created from loads of input from subject matter experts and plenty of research on past projects and their budgets. And we haven’t yet received the mandate to do a deep dive into requirements and scope that would enable more accurate results from the budget forecasting.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

In this article we’ll look at why minutes are worth doing and then dive into the 10 simple tips for taking effective meeting minutes. For example, make a note of any project change requests that were approved or rejected, or budget decisions. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Plus we’ve added handy links to help you dive deeper into different topics with videos, articles and even our round-up of all resources so you can put these important terms into practice with your projects. Read Peter Landau’s article How to Write a Business Case to learn more about its structure.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2024

This article outlines actionable strategies for thriving in challenging times, emphasizing that growth and success are achievable by leveraging community strength and readily accessible resources. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Consider using ResearchGate for an initial analysis of who is working in the field.)

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The project initiation phase is where you start to pull together all the stakeholders and what they want, to get the whole project team aligned behind the idea. In this article, you’ll learn more about overviews, how to write them and when to use them. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In this article I’ll share estimating techniques for schedules and budgets: the kind of things we need to know to get projects done. We create estimates mainly for project budgets and project schedules. The answers to these questions will allow you to pull together a project timeline and a budget. Why estimate?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2022

The ones that hit the papers are often public sector projects because their audits and budgets are more open to scrutiny. It also cost ten times more than the original budget, finally coming in at £430 million. The planned spa complex to boost tourism in Bath was originally budget at £13.5 billion to £10.9

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 4, 2023

Is it delivery on budget? Perhaps the project budget is the most important thing to your stakeholders, and quality is taking a back seat on the project. I include the list in the Project Charter or Project Initiation Document so it’s easy to refer to (not written one before? Is it delivery on time?

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

To start with, this article will provide you with some key definitions in the world of AI. While there are more ways to work with AI than can possibly be described in a simple article, we want to provide you with some ideas on how Chatbots, like ChatGPT and Bard, can help you with project origination and planning.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

The ‘something’ could be a meeting, a committee, a project, an initiative or anything else. A ToR is almost a cut-down version of the Project Initiation Document or Project Charter , as it relates to a particular set of individuals and tasks. Include a statement like: The indicative budget for this workstream/group is xxx.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Backfilling can be tricky, but with our guide, you’ll know everything you need to in order to successfully fill the gaps in your team and budget for project resources. A key resource is asked to commit some or all of their week to another initiative like a project. Does your project budget include funding for backfill?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 9, 2020

In this article, you’ll learn: Where in the world pays project managers the most How many jobs are available in top cities Which cities made it into the Global Liveability Index Which city made it on to the list… even though it hasn’t been built yet Which city tops the list for EU investment. A search on Seek.com.au

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

To start with, this article will provide you with some key definitions in the world of AI. While there are more ways to work with AI than can possibly be described in a simple article, we want to provide you with some ideas on how Chatbots, like ChatGPT and Bard, can help you with project origination and planning.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2022

You’ll probably end up with a number of different types of reports going to different audiences: project reports, budget reports, briefings to senior managers, and others that you do on an ad hoc basis. An older version of this article first appeared on the 2080 blog in 2016. We recommend: Project Status Report Template.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 28, 2023

B Blue Project closed R Red Project is likely to deliver late/over budget A Amber Project has missed some targets but overall end date/budget is not at risk G Green Project on track As you can see, this equates to the acronym BRAG. It could be over budget, running behind schedule or have uncontrolled scope changes (or all three).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

During project initiation you would have worked out the owners for each of the deliverables or at least the general team who will be receiving the handover. During project initiation and planning you would have worked out what deliverables would be required. Budget Share the project budget position.

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