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Importance of Scenario Planning and Analysis in Business

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By using regular and consistent scenario planning, organizations can better allocate resources successfully, mitigate risk and decrease production costs. This also applies to projects, which can use scenario planning to help them respond to changes in time, costs and scope.

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The Best 53 Project Management Blogs You Should Be Reading

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But through this clutter, how easy is it to find the most valuable blog feeds out there? Project management blogs and resources can be a primary source of knowledge, especially if project management (PM) experts contribute to them. And if you’re not yet familiar with project management, don’t worry!

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Stakeholder Mapping 101: A Quick Guide to Stakeholder Maps

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Map your stakeholders and keep them in the loop with ProjectManager.com’s project management features. A stakeholder map is a visual, four-quadrant influence-interest matrix used to identify stakeholders and categorize them in terms of their influence and interest in the project. Try it for yourself today!

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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This means this methodology greatly influences how your team operates and might even require you to make hiring decisions based on it. If not, you’re going to risk scope creep. On the other hand, kanban doesn’t have such strict rules. First off, it’s that scrum master.

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What Is a Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) In Project Management?

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The price for the product or service is then developed by using a cost breakdown analysis to figure out how much the product or service costs and then adds the profit margin. This is further broken down into direct and indirect costs. For one, a resource breakdown structure is a list of resources, not costs.

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Project Controls: A Quick Guide

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If something bad is going to happen on a project, it’s likely related to time, cost or scope. Project managers are well aware of this and spend much of their time planning in order to avoid negative risk and its potential impact. In fact, it works throughout the entire life cycle of a project. Cost estimates.

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10 Project Constraints That Endanger Your Project’s Success

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One of the biggest challenges of every project manager is project constraints. They limit a project, and they can quickly endanger your project’s success. Hence, it’s important to know all possible constraints, their influences on each other and the project management tools that address those constraints.