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What Is a Stakeholder? Definitions, Types & Examples

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These people can be suppliers, customers, creditors, clients, intermediaries, competitors, society, government and more. Government: These stakeholders get taxes and gross domestic product from a project. For example, if there are environmental factors dictated by the government, then the government is a stakeholder.

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Hard Costs vs Soft Costs in Construction: Definitions & Examples

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It’s not easy for construction companies to make accurate budget forecasts. But creating a detailed budget is key to successful construction project management. To create a realistic budget, you need to know the difference between these two costs. When it comes to budgeting, hard costs are easier to estimate.

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General Conditions in Construction: Definitions & Best Practices

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We’ll go further, explaining how to estimate general condition costs and how general conditions compare to construction specifications and general requirements. The project would have no governance and work would be slow and expensive if it was able to be done. The general conditions estimate the cost of the infrastructure.

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How to Build and Implement a Project Strategy

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The importance of a project strategy is simple: it helps deliver projects on time, within budget and aligned with larger strategic goals. They help with prioritizing projects, providing governance guidelines and ensure that projects are beneficial to the organization by aligning with larger strategic goals. That’s the project scope.

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What Is Lean Portfolio Management? A Quick Guide

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Lean portfolio management is a process by which strategy is aligned with execution using a lean approach and agile portfolio operations and governance. Portfolio management teams learn about enterprise strategy and how to execute that strategy by allocating the budget. This requires accurate estimates of resources.

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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The PMI definition of risk is: “an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has a positive or negative effect on a project’s objectives.”. The project type you are working on will affect the kinds of risks you see, so pick and choose and by no means consider the list below a definitive list! Project Budget Risks.

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Project Failure – Why it Happens

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– 1 – Project Definition. Not surprisingly, a lot of your project problems start here with a poor definition of what your project is, and is not. Insufficient Clarity of Definition. Creating a Robust Project Definition. What is a Project Definition? What is Strategic Project Definition?