Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

I can illustrate this with a case study from my book, Social Media for Project Managers. We determined what needed to be done to put in place instant fixes so that the website code would work and how much time a complete re-write of the website code would take – which we estimated would be all night long.”. Instant Messaging in Action.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

There is a discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. To be informed how to estimate in this broad range of domains, problems, and impacts — education, experience, and skill are needed. illities are a waste.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 18, 2023

Here are some examples of lessons learned on my projects: We should engage Finance earlier so leasing arrangements can be made in a timely fashion. All these ideas, as well as the concept of continuous improvement through lessons learned capture, are discussed in my book, Customer-Centric Project Management.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s a system for organizing and financing the design, construction, operations and maintenance services for the build on which you’re working, be it in a structure or facility. Each contract uses a unit price book to set the price for each job and this is done across a multi-year umbrella contract.

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Teamweek

MARCH 22, 2024

Top features Project time estimates : Set hourly time estimates for projects and tasks and track their progress with this Starter plan feature. Project budget estimates and alerts : Set up budget estimates for each project and client, and Timeular sends warnings for potential cost overruns.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2018

The five phases of a project constitute the project management life cycle , which coincidentally is the title of a book by ProjectManager.com CEO Jason Westland. The project plan will include what resources are needed, financing and materials. Cost: Estimate the costs involved across the project and formulate a budget.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. There is no discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. illities are a waste.

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The Lazy Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

But again, it is a rough estimate that is needed for this exercise. And finally, estimates of disruption ratio percentage (use the 20% provided if you don’t have a true idea of your own organisations percentage) and failure factor ratio percentage but only for the growth projects.

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2014 Finance Leadership Estimate 186

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2017

A Scrum of people works very well when doing Scrum , but operations, finance, and accounting are not the same as writing software for money. A Scrum of cost accountants, planner, finance, and operations people is called Chaos. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. This is how business works.

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Herding Cats

MAY 23, 2016

Estimating is part of all decision making in the presence of uncertainty. Accuracy and precision are two primary attributes of all estimates. We all know estimates are hard. So why is estimating a topic that seems to be the whipping boy for software developers these days? Estimating is part of all engineering disciplines.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Of course, all three of these are operating in the presence of uncertainty and therefore require estimates to be made. Estimates of the aleatory and epistemic uncertainties that create risk to the delivered Value need to be handled. All three pieces of information are needed.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? What would be the evidence that we could make decisions in the presence of uncertanty without estimating the impacts and outcomes of those decisions? . Start here.

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nTask

JANUARY 28, 2022

Be it meeting with the clients and discussing their needs, planning, and construction, managing the finances, or keeping an eye on legal matters, real estate development makes sure your hands are full all day, every day. offers Priority Circle, a dedicated team to help you with your finance and accounting needs. Budgeting and finance.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 6, 2016

I contributed this chapter (and another one) to the book. You’ve just got one day for budget approval,” said Claire from Finance. Given all their experience, they should be able to come up with some realistic estimates for time frames for all the tasks on the plan. Wise in his book, Trust in Virtual Teams.

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Productivity Land

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Whether it’s your family, friends, partners, or even colleagues, put ALL of them on the list and estimate the price you’re willing to pay. Once you’re financially set, the next, and perhaps the most important thing, is to create a comprehensive list of all the people you want to buy gifts for. Worry not – we’ve got a couple up our sleeve.

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Retail 2023 Budget Estimate 76

Teamweek

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Tool integrations Integrations include Xero, FreshBooks, Zoho Books, and many more. QuickBooks Time Price: Starts at $20/month Source QuickBooks Time is a time-tracking software that helps accountants and bookkeepers manage payroll, generate invoices, and estimate project costs.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 27, 2018

First let’s keep the concept of ROI basic, which is in this context: Applying this equation to a real-life example, if the cost for rolling out a SMILE activity = $10,000 and the estimated value of the program is $100,000 (considering quantitative and/or qualitative factors such as listed above): This number is not exaggerated.

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Sarah M. Hoban

JULY 18, 2023

Zoho offers 50+ software applications ranging from customer support to finance to sales to HR, with the goal for a business to run itself entirely using Zoho. Within each project, the project manager can input the project budget based on estimated staff or project hours. Team Collaboration.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

There are mysteries to managing in the presence of uncertainty for those who understand the principles of Risk Management of cost, schedule, and technical performance and know how to apply them using Managerial Finance, Microeconomics of Software Development, and Probabilities Decision making.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. Nassim Taleb’s books make use of the concept of a “Black Swan.”

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Herding Cats

JUNE 25, 2016

There's another rash of Twitter posters supporting the conjecture that decisions can be made about how to spend other people's money without estimating the impact and outcome of that decision. There are 100's more books, papers, conference proceedings on the topic of decision making in the presence of uncertanty. Related articles.

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2008 Finance Estimate Software Developers 44

Resource Guru

APRIL 10, 2023

Finalize project finances to ensure you’ve received your final payments from stakeholders. Provide your finance team with the final budget Collate information for your final project report. Book a meeting with your stakeholders. Consider subcontractors, vendors, or suppliers.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Every once in awhile a reasonably intelligent No Estimates advocate shows up in a Twitter discussion. They often say you should be open-minded and try the concepts of No Estimates first. . This is the traditional No Estimates argument - you're being a troll because you're asking me pointed questions.

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Estimate Software Review Finance Closing 48

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

book to explain the differences between simple, complicated, ordered, complex, and chaotic. The book, while providing advice to managers on how to manage, mixes pseudo-scientific references and concepts – like the double pendulum – in support of essentially sound staffing and personnel management. It’s too bad. Related articles.

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2009 Estimate Energy Finance 39

Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. Nassim Taleb’s books make use of the concept of a “Black Swan.”

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Leading Answers

MAY 1, 2020

Either way, sometimes we do not get to do everything by the book and we have to work with what we are given. Does it include finance, HR and sales? This is not to say we should give up and not try to make improvements. Instead, accept that not everything will be ideal and that we need to choose our battles wisely.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I recommend another book as guidance in making those decisions, Perspectives on Thinking, Judging, and Decision Making , Wibecke Brun Gideon Keren, Geir Kirkeb?en, This is called Risk Management and the processes of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty. en, and Henry Montgomery (editors).

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Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Look out for features like: Budgeting → Stay on top of your money with Productive Workload management → Cover it all with Screendragon Reporting → Dig into profitability with Accelo Client management → Collaborate with clients in Hola Finance management → Try Scoro’s comprehensive platform Get to know Scoro and Productive better 4.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

From a budgeting perspective, estimating the burn rates and capabilities of stable teams is much more reliable than estimating how long a new vendor-based team will take to complete some work. Finance departments are typically set up to evaluate and approve requests for expenditures based on one- or multi-year ROI projections.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2024

In this KA, you cover everything to do with defining the work required to deliver the scope, putting those tasks in the right order, estimating how long they will take to do and building the project schedule. If you want more detailed guidance, there are plenty of books on the subject. I would count money as a resource as well.

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Wrike

AUGUST 23, 2022

Budget: All costs associated with the event, including estimated expenses. Before you book the event venue or finalize the virtual speaker line-up, it is essential to outline the process and event planning steps to be followed. Accountant: Keeps the event finances and expenses in order and aligned with the budget.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

A good book on Boyd is Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War. Making decisions in the presence of this emerging uncertainty requires making estimates of the impacts or outcomes of any decision. How to Avoid the "Yesterday's Weather" Estimating Problem. How to Avoid the "Yesterday's Weather" Estimating Problem.

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Wrike

JULY 20, 2023

It serves as one huge address book for all vendors you’ve worked (and are working) with. With this information, they can calculate and forecast the net income from each period, allowing them to make informed decisions about the property’s finances. It makes it easy to calculate your profit and loss for a period.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Brown and his book The Handbooks of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management and my review of the same book. No Credible Decision Can Be Made in the Presence of Uncertainty with making Estimates of the Impact of those Decisions. I came to AHP through a seminar by Dr. James T.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For example, project management doesn’t have a specific method that we all use for document filing, different to, say, the way marketing or finance do document filing. A complete book in itself! Estimating methods. Here are four estimating methods. Analogous estimating. This is my go-to estimating method.

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Function Point

MAY 5, 2016

Ultimately, Gantt supports our finance-first product vision of connecting the financial management and workflow management for agencies. Typically, the estimating and planning processes are separate, and our goal is to marry them. Book a Demo. Gantt gives a visual snapshot of this data and makes it easy to identify bottlenecks.

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