ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

That creates a dilemma: how to spend their budget. A capital improvement plan (CIP) is used by organizations to make smart budgeting decisions on which large projects or purchases to pursue. This is a tool used more often by public entities such as local governments for major public expenditures.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 19, 2021

Construction, as an industry, covers a wide gamut of projects such as residential, renovation, heavy industry, commercial, institutional and engineering projects. Like other project managers, construction project managers must determine feasibility, plan, schedule, manage resources and make budgets?—in CoConstruct.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 27, 2022

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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ProjectManager.com

MAY 30, 2023

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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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 16, 2023

ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that connects contractors with general contractors, property owners, architects, engineers and subcontractors all in real time. Terms and conditions: Governing the contractual relationship between parties. Warranties: Promise to repair or replace any faulty work.

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The Lazy Project Manager

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

How would you categorize construction, architecture and engineering companies? If you think about it, the construction, architecture and engineering part of it is just about the type of projects they do. Project Businesses need to govern their business activities in the same way traditional industries have.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 1, 2020

It includes residential, renovation, heavy industry, commercial and institutional, and engineering projects. Like other project managers, construction project managers must determine feasibility, plan, schedule, manage resources and make budgets?—in Of course, construction is a wide topic. CoConstruct. The layout can be confusing.

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Wrike

JULY 29, 2020

Knowing how to estimate project duration can help teams become more efficient and improve on-time and on-budget delivery. . When it comes to project management time estimation, there are a couple of likely scenarios. Read on to learn how to achieve realistic project duration estimates for your future projects. .

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate. hours, personnel needed, and/or tasks) to ensure that a project can be completed on time and within budget.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Paul Boos has a post about estimating and makes a case for the Principles of when NOT to estimate. This struck a cord around a bigger topic - the inversion of estimating. When should we NOT estimate? Then on to the original conjecture for No Estimates from Paul's post. That is, to make decision with “No estimates”.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 18, 2023

If your project budget is as stretched as your time, your sponsor is going to have to make a difficult call: is there money available to pay for the extra help? Both require you to have decent task estimates of how long the work will take so you can calculate the time saving expected. And you have to pay for those people.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population. The estimate can also be produced parametrically or through a simulation (Monte Carlo is common, but Method of Moments is another we use). . Estimates can be about the past, present, or future.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. This early work took me into other fields of engineered systems.

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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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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

The project manager is responsible for coordinating the work of the team, monitoring progress, and making any necessary adjustments to ensure that the project is completed on time and within budget. Constraints typically relate to schedule, resources, budget, and scope. government began using it to manage complex defense projects.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This view of the system of producing value in exchange for money ignores the principles of systems engineering. . Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design and manage complex systems over their life cycles.

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Susanne Madsen

MAY 23, 2018

Just consider the most important techniques we use as project managers: we define scope, analyse requirements, plan and estimate work, add contingency, manage risks, track changes and check the quality. Proclaimed as an engineering feat in its slender profile, the 320 metres suspension bridge was built in 2000.

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nTask

MAY 5, 2021

The use of cost and benefit assessment is said to have been used for the first time in the 19 th century by a French engineer and self-taught economist called Jules Dupuit. Such analysis is used in project management, in business, finance, government, and even for non-profit projects. Usually, costs are easy to estimate and quantify.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Agile A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects in an iterative way with short bursts of work called “sprints” Though initially designed as a process for IT and engineering projects, it has since been successfully applied to other industries like marketing.

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Planview

JULY 9, 2019

Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding. A project-based funding structure creates a slower, more complicated budgeting process that requires estimates, plans, and details far before they are able to be accurate. Lead the move to objective milestones and Lean-Agile budgeting.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Project baseline, budget estimates accuracy, schedule and project phasing, effective project performance (reviews) and measurement - 8.96%. Full understanding, and early engagement, of host government environment and institutional requirements 0.78%. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

You wouldn’t believe the number of project managers I speak to on mentoring calls who struggle to get their budget approved. If you’re wondering what budget contingency is, then you have come to the right place. Only 62% of projects complete within their original budget, according to PMI’s 2021 figures. Not least: is it enough?

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

And then because I did not, I guess, mess up my last job, I was a team member then a team lead, then a section lead, then a project manager, then a program manager, then a director of engineering, and moved up the chain not by formal education, but more because I didn’t screw up my last job, so they figured they could keep putting me up there.

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MPUG

APRIL 15, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Lead Course Developer for Edwards Performance Solutions, as such he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. Estimating has not changed.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 9, 2019

It includes residential, renovation, heavy industry, commercial and institutional, and engineering projects. Like other project managers, construction project managers must determine feasibility, plan, schedule, manage resources and make budgets?—in Of course, construction is a wide topic. CoConstruct. The layout can be confusing.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

It includes analyzing the dependencies between different business functions, identifying vulnerabilities, and estimating the potential downtime and financial losses associated with disruptions. Addressing Resource Constraints Limited budgets, skilled personnel, or technological limitations can impede the development and execution of the plan.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 11, 2023

They are the owner, who is the one commissioning the work and funds or finances it; the architect or engineer, who is responsible for the design of the project; and the general contractor, who is the person overseeing the day-to-day operations of the project as well as managing the subcontractors. The Construction Management Process.

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Herding Cats

MAY 16, 2019

No matter the domain, the engineering development process, these concepts are applicable. Budget control is mandatory for any credible management of other peoples money. For any system, estimates of future life-cycle costs are subject to varying degrees of uncertainty.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 7, 2017

This is the foundation for estimates. Estimates with accuracy and precision values needed to make credible decisions. These estimates are critical to both developers and customers. These estimates are used for generating requests for proposals, contract negotiations, scheduling, monitoring, and control. No Estimates?

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

in sustainable development and environment, and he has over 25 years of experience in various areas of project management including government, finance, consulting, manufacturing, and education. Each side of the pyramid is 767 ft long, it’s as tall as a 40 story building, and it has an estimated 2.5 Our guest is Dr. Joel Carboni.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 14, 2018

Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis. Showing up late and over budget does not produce the needed Value. This is the foundation for estimates. Related articles. IT Risk Management.

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Appfluence

MARCH 23, 2021

Operations management acts as the engine room for organizing, planning and promoting manufacturing or service and it is considered that everything about a business depends on it. OPERATIONS ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT: CONCEPTS, ANALYTICS AND PRINCIPLES FOR IMPROVEMENT. The Importance Of Operations Management. Organisational Skills.

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Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

Or plan on being late, over budget, and reduced probability of technical success, before you start. This is called Software Engineering Economics. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. All Value is Cost and Time dependent.

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Herding Cats

JULY 9, 2018

The principal purposes of supporting the engineering of these systems are fulfilled by these emergent behaviors. To make decisions about any of the work that impacts the four measures in the presence of the uncertainty requires we make estimates. No not to exceed budgets. Evolutionary Development. No Deadlines. Knowledge ?

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 13, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates or any other project attribute. Estimates of cost, schedule, technical performance on the left have a lower probability of being precise and accurate than estimates on the right.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 4, 2016

This is used in support of the fallacy that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of uncertanty. Who's Budget is it Anyway? Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Software Engineering is a Verb. The #NoEstimates advocates love to use a Deming quote. IT Risk Management.

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