Budget, Executing, Monitoring and Risk Management

Project Monitoring and Control: Tools & Steps

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2023

Projects are divided into phases to make them more manageable. All are important, especially project monitoring. Project monitoring and control is how a project manager ensures the plan they’re implementing with the project team goes off without a hitch. What Is Project Monitoring and Control?

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What Is an IT Budget? IT Budgeting Basics (Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Managing information costs and managing information security for those costs are part of making an IT budget. First, we need to understand what an IT budget is, how often they’re made and what is the best size for one. What Is an IT Budget? ProjectManager’s Gantt charts help you plan, manage and track IT costs.

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Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

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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Google Sheets Budget Template: Track Business Costs Online

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A budget is a document that’s mainly used to break down the costs of executing a project or running the operations of a business for a period of time and define a maximum spending limit for the procurement of resources. Google Sheets helps with collaboration but it isn’t a true project management software.

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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. What is Project Execution? Project Execution Steps. Execute Project Scope.

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What are the Risk Management Roles in Projects and Programs?

Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As a project manager, you constantly juggle a million tasks at once. This article will provide clear guidance on how to define and assign risk management roles and responsibilities for projects and programs. Ensuring that all of the risks are addressed can be a daunting task, particularly for larger, complex projects.

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What Is a Project Executive? Role, Responsibilities and Salary

ProjectManager.com

JULY 18, 2023

There’s someone at the top of the project management team who answers to the stakeholders and directs the project manager and project team. That position is called a project executive. We’ll also help you understand what a project executive is by comparing them to the project manager.

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Create & Manage a Project Budget Using Software

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2022

Whether you’re a numbers person or not, as a project manager, ownership of a budget is usually a key part of your job responsibilities. Creating and managing a project budget can be a daunting task, but it can be easy if you use the right project budgeting software. What Is a Project Budget? Learn More!

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Construction Risk Management: An Introduction

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 13, 2021

There is heavy equipment, crews working in precarious situations and complicated logistics to manage. How do you meet your deadline while managing all that risk? The answer is construction risk management. It can be mind-bogglingly complex, which is you should make a detailed construction risk management plan.

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Project Budget Template for Excel

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

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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What Is a Budget Report? Purpose, Components & Benefits

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2023

Whether you’re running a company or a project, you’re going to have to deal with a budget. A budget is the spending plan that you forecast using estimates of income and expenses. To ensure you’re keeping to that ever-important operating budget, you’ll be making a regular budget report as well as referencing financial statements.

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How to Create a Project Execution Plan (PEP) – Free Template Included

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 6, 2022

Coming up with a great idea is only the beginning: t o realize it, you need a project execution plan (PEP). A project execution plan is a document for executing projects that helps you strategize, come up with project management processes and put the whole thing into action. What Is a Project Execution Plan (PEP)?

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The Budgeting Process in Business & Project Management

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 6, 2023

There’s one thing that all businesses have in common with project management: money. Without funding and the proper budgeting process, projects in any industry grind to a halt. Budgeting is how those funds are spent. But first, let’s define what a budget is and explore the types of budgets and methods for making a budget.

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What Project Managers Should Know About Monitoring Project Risks

Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 13, 2018

Many project managers do a great job of identifying risks. Some even evaluate risks and develop response plans. However, project managers get busy as their projects progress and fail to monitor their risks, resulting in challenged or failed projects. Do Project Managers Really Control Risks?

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12 Free Project Planning Templates for Excel and Word

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Project planning is one of the first and most important aspects of project management. Using project planning templates can help you schedule tasks, estimate budgets and allocate resources. Project planning templates are part of project management. That’s how you deliver on time and within budget.

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How to Successfully Execute a Plan

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 1, 2019

Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to take that plan and execute it right. In Review – How to Successfully Execute a Plan. Execute is a verb. Jennifer noted that when you execute something, it means to carry it out, such as a plan or product, as in a work product. Related: Top 10 Project Management Responsibilities.

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How Poor Risk Management Is Hurting Your Program

Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 24, 2022

Poor risk management is costly. Program managers are caught off guard by emerging risks. And these risks may turn into issues costing more time and money. We can identify risks early. We can assess and prioritize our risks, allowing us to make better use of our limited time. Program Management.

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Project Management Triangle: A Quick Guide

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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How to Manage Your Project Pipeline With Software

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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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

When you’re a PMP, program manager or portfolio manager, you need to deliver all those multiple projects on time and within budget. This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. This is done by using a project management maturity model. What Is Project Management Maturity?

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Project Performance Reporting: Key Performance Reports

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Keeping tabs on the performance of your project is an essential part of project management. Tracking project performance gives project managers the data they need to keep the actual effort of the project aligned with the planned effort and deliver the project on time and within its budget. Project management software can help.

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The Gantt Chart in Construction Project Management: Understanding the Best Planning & Scheduling Tool

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Gantt charts have been a fundamental project management tool for over a century, and it’s easy to understand why. We’ll show you how to make a Gantt chart in ProjectManager and why construction Gantt charts help deliver projects on time and within budget. Construction Gantt charts are versatile project management tools.

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Business Project Management Basics

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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Best Cost Control Techniques

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Whether you’re managing a project in construction or manufacturing, keeping costs down is paramount. This is why in project management and business in general cost control is so important. Learn how cost control can help you better manage construction or manufacturing projects. Cost control as a process begins with budgeting.

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Workload Analysis: Steps, Examples & Tools

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Your team is your most valuable resource when executing a project. Workload analysis is how project managers figure out how many team members they will need to properly execute a project. Being able to see the workload of your team during the execution phase of the project is part of the monitoring and controlling phase.

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How to Make a Risk Management Plan

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 3, 2019

You identify them, record them, monitor them and plan for them: risks are an inherent part of every project. Some risks are bound to become problem areas—like executing a project over the holidays and having to plan the project timeline around them. But first, what is risk management? Identify Risks.

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Implementation Plan: How to Create and Execute One

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 30, 2019

So what is an implementation plan, how do you make one, and how do you execute it successfully? Thus, the implementation plan traces the edges of that, mapping out how to best implement a strategic plan from the outset, and how to effectively manage it as it gets put into place. Map Out Assumptions and Risks. Let’s take a look.

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What Is a PMO Director? Role, Responsibilities & Salary

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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Top 10 Project Management Qualifications

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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12 Questions for Monitoring Project Risks

Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 20, 2018

Some project managers start their projects with a strong focus on risk management. In this article, I am providing questions that can help you in monitoring project risks and as a result, achieve better results. Other project managers start out strong and stick with their risk management.

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Strategic Project Management: Planning Strategic Projects

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Strategic project management understands this. If you haven’t heard the term before, we’ll begin with a definition of strategic project management and explain how strategic projects differ from operational projects. What Is Strategic Project Management? Allocate resources, track time and manage tasks all from one screen.

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Enterprise Project Management: Benefits, Challenges & Tools

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2024

Managing more than one project at a time creates a lot of problems. That and more is what enterprise project management does. Let’s define the term enterprise project management and then identify its unique challenges before going into what an enterprise project manager is and what an enterprise project management office is.

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Project Management Basics: Definitions, Methods and Tools

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?

Project Life Cycle

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IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices

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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9 Steps to Managing Risk for Your Projects

LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Risk and uncertainty are inherent parts of all project work, making project risk management an important topic for teams to address. When studies tell us that easily half of all IT projects run over budget and past deadline , we see how easily risk turns into real trouble for projects and their organizations.

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Schedule of Values in Construction (Example & Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 27, 2023

It can be used to communicate what’s needed in the project, the costs associated with the activities and the management of payments. But what is a schedule of values and why is it such an essential construction project management document? ProjectManager’s Gantt charts manage your human and nonhuman resources.

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Construction Cost Management: Managing Construction Costs

ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2023

But if the construction cost goes over budget, that’s coming out of the contractor’s pocket. That’s why construction cost management is so important. Knowing exactly what construction cost management means and what a construction cost is can be the difference between project success or failure.

Construction

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Resource Requirements in Project Management: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2024

Resource requirements need to be identified and allocated for those steps to be executed. Once one understands what resource requirements are in project management, next there is estimating what those resources will be and managing them. What Are Resource Requirements in Project Management?

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Everything you need to know about project management terms is here in one list! Check back often, as this list of project management terminology is ever-evolving, just like project management itself! Check back often, as this list of project management terminology is ever-evolving, just like project management itself!

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Uncovering the Role of Risk Owners in Agile Projects

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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How to Unite Enterprise and Project Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Learn to Better Manage Enterprise Risks Through Project Risk Management Many organizations have adopted enterprise risk management (ERM) as a way to make better decisions, get stronger operating results, and meet regulatory requirements. What is Enterprise Risk Management? Why is ERM important?

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Project Financial Management: Managing Project Financials

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Whether you call it project financial management or project accounting, managing a project’s finances is essential to delivering a successful project. There’s a lot of planning, managing and tracking involved. But what exactly is financial project management? What Is Project Financial Management?

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15 Project Management Challenges & How to Overcome Them

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

Project management is all about solving problems before they happen. That’s why you make a plan, schedule tasks and monitor the work to make sure you’re staying on track. Let’s look at 15 project management challenges and how to deal with them. Let’s look at 15 project management challenges and how to deal with them.

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10 Must-Have Project Management Templates for Google Sheets

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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Project Monitoring and Control: Tools & Steps

What Is an IT Budget? IT Budgeting Basics (Template Included)

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Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

Google Sheets Budget Template: Track Business Costs Online

10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

What are the Risk Management Roles in Projects and Programs?

What Is a Project Executive? Role, Responsibilities and Salary

Create & Manage a Project Budget Using Software

Construction Risk Management: An Introduction

Project Budget Template for Excel

What Is a Budget Report? Purpose, Components & Benefits

How to Create a Project Execution Plan (PEP) – Free Template Included

The Budgeting Process in Business & Project Management

What Project Managers Should Know About Monitoring Project Risks

12 Free Project Planning Templates for Excel and Word

How to Successfully Execute a Plan

How Poor Risk Management Is Hurting Your Program

Project Management Triangle: A Quick Guide

How to Manage Your Project Pipeline With Software

Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

Project Performance Reporting: Key Performance Reports

The Gantt Chart in Construction Project Management: Understanding the Best Planning & Scheduling Tool

Business Project Management Basics

Best Cost Control Techniques

Workload Analysis: Steps, Examples & Tools

How to Make a Risk Management Plan

Implementation Plan: How to Create and Execute One

What Is a PMO Director? Role, Responsibilities & Salary

Top 10 Project Management Qualifications

12 Questions for Monitoring Project Risks

Strategic Project Management: Planning Strategic Projects

Enterprise Project Management: Benefits, Challenges & Tools

Project Management Basics: Definitions, Methods and Tools

IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices

9 Steps to Managing Risk for Your Projects

Schedule of Values in Construction (Example & Template Included)

Construction Cost Management: Managing Construction Costs

Resource Requirements in Project Management: A Quick Guide

100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

Uncovering the Role of Risk Owners in Agile Projects

How to Unite Enterprise and Project Risk Management

Project Financial Management: Managing Project Financials

15 Project Management Challenges & How to Overcome Them

10 Must-Have Project Management Templates for Google Sheets

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