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Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Budgeting Approaches

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There are many ways to approach budgeting. Two of the more common approaches are bottom-up budgeting and top-down budgeting. Knowing which is right for you starts with understanding both of these budgeting approaches. Then we’ll show you how to make a budget using both so you can make an informed decision.

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Project Budget Template for Excel

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A project budget contains the financial details of your project, including the estimates of all the money you need to layout to lead a successful project, from resources to materials. Monitor project expenses with this Excel budget template. The budget is the life’s blood of your project, so you need to monitor it accurately.

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Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. Watch the video to listen (about 30 minutes). If you prefer to read, there are closed captions in the video or there’s also a transcript underneath the video.

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Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. Watch the video to listen (about 30 minutes). If you prefer to read, there are closed captions in the video or there’s also a transcript underneath the video.

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Top 10 Project Management Qualifications

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Video: Project Management Qualifications Overview Learn about the top-10 project management qualifications in this tutorial video featuring Jennifer Bridges, PMP. Project planning is the second stage in project management, after initiation and before execution, monitoring and controlling and closing. Thanks for watching!

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Epicflow Summer 2021 Updates: Generic User, Budget Task and Budget Distribution, Meeting View

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Budget Task: Plan and Monitor the Amount of Work Allocated for Project Tasks . Budget Task feature indicates a certain part of work that has to be completed within the scope of a project. The purpose of the Budget Task feature is to help project managers plan and monitor the amount of work required for completing the project tasks. .

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Project Health: How to Keep Your Project Healthy

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As we’ll see in a moment, this requires a close monitoring of various elements of the project. Having a scope baseline helps track your project scope and avoid scope creep, which is adding more activities without adjusting the schedule or budget to compensate. Project Budget The project budget is the estimated costs of the project.