Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It facilitates effective resource allocation and leads to the success of projects. Additionally, these are some of the critical benefits of resource forecasting in project management, which we’ll discuss below. They could be under-skilled or overqualified, affecting delivery or overall project cost.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 24, 2023

A rough order of magnitude estimate is used to give you a very high level view of potential project costs. 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. What is a ROM estimate?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

Let’s review four foundational project management concepts that shape the project management discipline: the project life cycle, the triple constraint of project management, the project management knowledge areas and some of the different project management methodologies you can use as a project manager.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It does help with projects though. Making an educated guess about project tasks is a good skill to have. In this article I’ll share estimating techniques for schedules and budgets: the kind of things we need to know to get projects done. Everything you need to start tracking your project today. Why estimate?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 8, 2021

Estimating might not be an exact science, but it is one of the most important aspects of planning for a project. It’s how you build a budget by figuring out as best as possible what your project costs will be, including resources and how long you’ll need them for. ProjectManager.com’s Project Estimate Template.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 13, 2022

Projects need management. Much of the focus of project management is obviously on methodologies that keep your project on time and within budget. But you don’t want to initiate a loss leader. That’s where project selection comes in. All projects are risky, and some are very complex. Scoring Models.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Change Order A formal request to modify an agreed-upon project scope, schedule, budget, or quality specification. This is generally initiated by the customer/client or stakeholders. Continuous Improvement The ongoing effort to improve a project process, product, or service to achieve better results. of a project.

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MPUG

MAY 22, 2023

Introduction This article is a follow-up to an article that I published last fall ( Killing a Project ) that discusses what to do when pulling the plug or canceling a project, regardless of its size. When the possibility of success is gone, these projects should be canceled for the health of the corporation.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

You can also assign labor costs to team members, and that potential cost is automatically calculated as you assign them tasks and work hours. Plus, as the project unfolds, our real-time dashboards can track project costs and compare them against your initial planned costs, so projects don’t ever have to go over budget.

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MPUG

JULY 24, 2023

EVM concepts were initiated over fifty years ago by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to support their control processes with large defense acquisition programs. Air Force defined the criteria for their acquisition projects which included the basic concepts of EVM. In 1965, the U.S.

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Velociteach

APRIL 11, 2023

The project charter is a foundational deliverable created during the project’s initiation phase. The charter documents the project’s purpose, planned direction, and what is initially known. Regardless of the format, articulating the project’s intent is invaluable and harder than expected. define “success.”

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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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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

To get their support and approval, they need to understand what value an initiative will bring to their business, or how it’s supposed to solve an existing business problem. Let’s figure it out in the article. . A Business Case in Project Management: Definition and Importance. Justification: why implement the proposed project?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 22, 2021

To utilize project resources effectively and ensure that they meet their anticipated performance goals, project managers play the role of both people manager and functional manager. Project resource management techniques address how resources need to be managed while working in different project situations.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This post makes an initial attempt to describe what Artificial Intelligence is, where it might apply in the world, and the impacts to organizational strategy and project management. It follows up this initial attempt with actual Artifical Intelligence responses from ChatGPT. So let’s go right to the source!

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nTask

DECEMBER 21, 2020

One way to be productive and ahead of your game is to adopt project management techniques to project manage your life. After all, what is life but a string of projects? So how would you project manage your life? A project lifecycle often follows five distinct processes. And the Project Close.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Understanding the key project assumptions is also helpful for documenting the project scope in a proposal or for a contract. Currency fluctuation can impact the project budget and margin. To mitigate this, you can assume a fixed currency conversion rate for the duration of the project. How do you identify assumptions?

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Epicflow Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to ensure an optimal utilization rate from the initial project stages? Resource utilization is one of the most essential KPIs that project-based organizations should track – it gives them an idea of how efficiently they use the available resources and how productive their employees are. It helps plan future projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Applying Business Acumen To Your Project. Stakeholders are often most interested in project cost and the time it is going to take to finish the work, and your business acumen comes into play hugely here. Download my free checklist which summarises the actions in this article. Want to boost your business acumen?

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The costs being analyzed are Engineering, Marketing, and Information Technology (IT) Equipment. Each cost estimate is based on uncertain factors like labor rates, material costs, etc. The variables could range from project costs and timelines to resource availability and productivity rates.

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MPUG

JUNE 19, 2023

Through the process of doing the work, we learn more about the subject of our work and the processes we employ for our project objectives. In this article, we will define change orders and provide steps for how to integrate change orders in Microsoft Project. Update the project’s cost tracking and reporting hence.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 17, 2022

And are often enough to derail your project’s timeframe as well as budget. In this article, you’ll learn everything you need to know about how to use Project Controls to deliver your project on time and within budget. What are project controls? Importance of project controls. Project scope.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 23, 2018

When you look at the various techniques, there are a lot ways to answer those original two simple questions I pose at the top of this article. Here’s a look at how to use top-down and bottom-up planning to identify and estimate your project tasks. The trade-off is that project cost and schedule dates aren’t as accurate.

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Proofhub

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For some, it is the team who works hard day and night to deliver every deliverable and deadlines within the project to make it successful. And for the rest, it takes the best of both (management and teamwork) to make a project successful. We will take a closer look at the various aspects of project management.

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nTask

MAY 5, 2021

Jules Dupuit used the basic principles in his job at a bridge project in helping determine tolls. Dupuit outlined the principles behind what is now known as the cost benefit assessment in an article that was published in 1848. Weighing any social benefits that you can gain from your project. Assessing change initiatives.

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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.

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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. Note: This guide will touch on the ‘how’ of creating a project budget, but it will focus primarily on how you can better manage it.

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MPUG

JANUARY 18, 2021

At a minimum, your organization may require you to enter resource cost rates in the Standard Rate and Overtime Rate fields for each resource. As you enter these resource rates, however, you may discover that these two rates are not enough for your project costing needs. Setting Up Cost Rate Tables.

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nTask

APRIL 13, 2021

Here are just some of the benefits of this project management methodology. EVM has a powerful predictive capability thus making it a great project cost control measure. This methodology provides more in-depth information than simple project tracking thus giving you a range of other advantages as well. PV or BCWS.

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MPUG

AUGUST 14, 2023

In pursuit of these objectives, a common challenge arises – sales personnel taking on some project manager responsibilities at the start of a project. While the intent may be to expedite project initiation and meet customer demands, this practice can lead to significant pitfalls that hinder project success.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash The Impact of Soft Costs on Project Budgets Soft costs can have a significant impact on project budgets, often leading to unforeseen budget overruns. Through strategic planning and effective communication, project managers can influence how soft costs are addressed and controlled.

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International Institute for Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In the past five years, there have been numerous articles discussing how Artificial Intelligence (AI), can and will benefit the field of project management. Recognizing the need for AI applications has been discussed in numerous journal articles. Harold Kerzner. Introduction.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY The policies and procedures that companies develop will at least initially be based upon legal factors. Information stored in AI systems may be company proprietary data on project performance or personal information that some people would not like to have shared by AI. Dr. Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. Kerzner, Ph.D.,

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Productivity Land

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In this article, we will explore key questions CEOs may have about making the hiring process in LATAM more efficient and strategic. This linguistic flexibility simplifies collaboration in global tech projects. This cost-efficiency is particularly attractive to CEOs looking to optimize their budgets.

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The IIL Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Every year, numerous articles are written that describe new approaches to management and leadership practices. The focus of this paper is to discuss some of the challenges facing the linkage between artificial intelligence (AI), project management, and stakeholder relations management. By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. and Elissa Farrow, Ph.D.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 4, 2023

They allow project managers to allocate resources effectively, so that the project stays within budget. Cost estimates also help in tracking the project’s progress and identifying any deviations from the initial plan. Lastly, accurate cost estimates contribute to the overall success of a construction project.

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Function Point

APRIL 5, 2023

Budget: Reach an agreement on the project costs, realistic expectations, and deliverables before starting the work. 4 Tools to create compelling creative briefs and profitable projects 1. Unfortunately, getting clear, accurate details may not seem important until the project is already off-track.

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