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Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

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Figuring out what to spend its capital on, such as capital spending on long-term assets, is part of capital budgeting. First, we need to define capital budgeting, what a capital budget is and why it’s important. Then we can go through the capital budgeting techniques and the steps to a capital budgeting process.

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What Is a Technical Project Manager? (Job Description Included)

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There are many different project managers, but today we’re interested in focusing on just one, the technical project manager. Are you interested in becoming a technical project manager or are you in the market to hire one? What Is a Technical Project Manager? What Is a Technical Project Manager? Learn more.

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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s easy to find examples of high-profile projects that fail. The ones that hit the papers are often public sector projects because their audits and budgets are more open to scrutiny. This was largely due to the unforeseen increase in the cost of steel. The Channel Tunnel construction project saw its budget rise from £4.8

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Exploring the differences: Projects vs operations examples

Rebel’s Guide to PM

From examples of project activities in a business versus operational activities to strategies for balancing projects and operations simultaneously — this article will help you understand the differences and consider the similarities. However, the two sides of any organization can live in harmony.

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How to Become a Project Manager in 2022: 3 Ways to Get A Job (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The projects that you read about in the media are often high profile, with budgets in the multimillions or even billions. Look for jobs advertised as project coordinators, project office assistants or junior or trainee project management roles within technical functions. This is the route I took.

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The Importance of Operational Project Management for Businesses

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To better understand operational project management requires defining what an operational project is, how it differs from strategic projects and what operational project management is. There will also be a section describing best practices and an operational project example to further illustrate the idea.

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12 Ways to Manage Project Quality Without Drama

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The basics: defining quality Knowing how you are going to manage quality feeds into your quality plan (obviously). The APM BOK defines project quality as: “The fitness for purpose of the degree of conformance of the outputs of a process, or the process itself to requirements.” But, projects rarely have dedicated budgets for training.