The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

By Alan Zucker We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Our risks were identified, but a response strategy was never created.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

When managing a project, there will inevitably be changes or other issues that impact the project. To prevent going off schedule or overspending, project managers are always balancing the project management triangle, which is made up of the three main project constraints. What Is the Project Management Triangle?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2023

Projects are divided into phases to make them more manageable. Project monitoring and control is how a project manager ensures the plan they’re implementing with the project team goes off without a hitch. There are five phases in the project management process: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling and closing.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

All of these things and more make them a perfect candidate for business project management. Let’s first explore the definition of business project management. Then, we’ll look at the role of a business project manager and the types of projects that a business will manage. What Is Business Project Management?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 28, 2023

RAG reporting is a good way to draw management’s attention to projects that need support. Let’s learn more about RAG in project management because it’s a really useful, visual way of communicating project status. What is RAG is project management? Senior management support is needed.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 22, 2024

This contractor payment schedule is defined in the construction contract and sets pay over regular intervals across the project schedule. This sets clear payment terms for the contractor and reduces the risk of them receiving late payments or even no payment at all. The contract type can impact the construction payment schedule.

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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?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 16, 2024

When you’re a project management office (PMO) or program or portfolio manager, you’re going to have to deal with multiple projects in various stages of the project pipeline. We’ll get to that in a moment as well as define project pipeline management. ProjectManager’s roadmaps help you manage your project pipeline.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? you can use to help you close those gaps, yet it isn’t easy. Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. Manage Team. Following processes.

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Thoughtlessly making assumptions or ignoring risks can lead to critical problems.

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It's a simple question, "Who owns the risks in agile projects?" In this article, let's uncover the role of risk owners and how to perform risk management in agile projects. What is a Risk Owner? When it comes to taking ownership of risks, it allows team members to have greater control over their work.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

IT financial management (ITFM) covers the costs of keeping our network, servers and devices running. IT financial management is a bit more complicated than that and we’ll explain by more thoroughly defining the term. Then we’ll list the professionals who are tasked with IT financial management and their key objectives.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2023

PMO stands for project management office and it’s responsible for the project management standards in an organization. The two others are the program management office and the portfolio management office. They’re responsible for making sure that the related projects are completed on time and within budget.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

However, in project management, project assumptions are essential for planning a project. Let’s take a look at how project assumptions are defined in project management and why they’re so important. Then we’ll learn about a project assumption log and how assumptions differ from constraints and risk.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

To understand what project health is let’s define it and the areas that should be monitored to make sure your project is healthy. As we’ll see in a moment, this requires a close monitoring of various elements of the project. As we’ll see in a moment, this requires a close monitoring of various elements of the project.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

What qualifications do you need to land a project management job? What Are Project Management Qualifications? Being qualified for a position as a project manager means you have the skills, experience and temperament for the job. Qualified project managers need the right tools for the job. Thanks for watching!

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

Welcome to project management 101. Project management can seem like a daunting discipline, but once you get a grasp of the fundamentals and combine that with some intuition, you’ll be on your way to leading successful projects, no matter your situation. Budgets are also part of a project. What Is Project Management?

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In this article, we’re addressing a common question in modern project management: Do we need risk management in agile projects? Do agile projects have risks associated with them? And do we want to let those risks run wild without any effort to contain them? Why is Risk Management in Agile Projects Even a Question?

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 26, 2023

Before you can start a project — even before you can plan it — you first need to define the project in detail. This allows the project manager to get buy-in from the project’s key stakeholders and ensure all the research has been done to move into the planning phase without any hiccups. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 15, 2021

RAG reporting is a good way to draw management’s attention to projects that need support. Let’s learn more about RAG in project management because it’s a really useful, visual way of communicating project status. What is RAG is project management? Senior management support is needed.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Whether you’re interested in a career in construction or looking to fill an open position in your construction management company, there are a lot of entry points. We explain what each is and offer a salary average to see how much you can expect to earn or pay for one of these construction management roles.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Some project managers have a defensive mindset. 3 Is an Opportunity a Risk, Really? Project managers may use qualitative and quantitative risk analysis to evaluate opportunities. Consequently, these project managers and team members fail to take advantage of these upside risks. Let's define opportunity.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

Everyone wants their projects to be “quality” but I often get asked about how to manage project quality in real life. You probably already know that you need a quality management plan , and that management, assurance and control are the pillars of doing it right. What does it mean to “do” project quality?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

There are many things that are needed when managing a project. To make sure you understand what organizational process assets are, first, we’ll define the terms and explain their importance. An organizational process asset is a tangible resource that’s used to guide the management of an organization’s projects and operations.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 1, 2023

There are many ways to manage a project. While project management software is the gold standard, there are many free project management templates for Google that you can download to plan, manage and track your projects. It’s easy to start using these free project management templates for Google.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

What do you need to know to succeed at project management? While there’s some truth to that joke, it’s not helpful to the student or the experienced professional who is looking for a way to understand the myriad responsibilities of being a project manager. What is PMBOK in Project Management? Project Integration Management.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

Project managers are the point person in charge of a specific project or projects within an organization. We regularly feature project management resources to help train PMs to land jobs in the industry or develop better skills in their current role. What Does a Project Manager Do? How Much Does a Project Manager Make?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

Project governance is an important part of project management processes – even if it’s not the most exciting part of getting work done. As a project manager, part of your role is shepherding the work through the project lifecycle. Risk management. Expectation management. Stakeholder engagement.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Project failure can be delivering a project after its deadline, over its budget or not meeting its quality expectations. There are many ways to avoid project failure, one of which is using project management software. ProjectManager has Gantt charts to plan, manage and track projects in real time.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 29, 2022

Project managers know the importance of having project documentation. Creating and managing project documentation throughout the project life cycle is critical for project success, but where to start? The term project documentation refers to the project management documents that are created throughout the project life cycle.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

To keep to your schedule and manage costs, you need to gather and process project data throughout the five PMBOK project management groups. What Are the 5 PMBOK Project Management Process Groups? Project managers use the five project management phases to structure projects and lead them from beginning to end.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We’ll get to how to calculate the manufacturing cost of production and delivery, but just as important is the ability to track those costs throughout the life cycle of your production to ensure you’re operating within your budget. Project management software helps manufacturers track production costs.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

And project managers contribute hugely to that because we go out and look for it. We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. Project management conflict examples in the Concept Phase First up, the Concept or Initiation Phase.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 26, 2023

They all go through the same cycle, known as the project life cycle, or project management life cycle. The project life cycle is made up of five project stages: project initiation, project planning, project execution, monitoring & control and project closing. What Is the Project Life Cycle?

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Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2018

Often I hear people say that Scrum does not take care of risk: there is no risk log, risk is not on the agenda of the Sprint Review or Retrospective as a standard agenda-item. That's a risk right there! If there is not one person accountable for quality, being on time, within budget, building the right thing.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Product Manager vs Project Manager. While both are leadership roles and the titles are similar, there’s a difference between a product manager and a project manager as Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains. What Is a Project Manager? Let’s take a look at the most important project manager responsibilities.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In this post, we’ll define industrial construction and how it differs from the rest of commercial construction. Finally, we’ll offer links to a few free construction project management templates to help manage industrial construction projects. ProjectManager’s Gantt chart helps you manage your industrial construction projects.

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