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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? An IT budget consists of all the IT spending for an organization over one year.

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7 Budget Templates for Business & Project Budgeting

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The project budget is developed during the planning phase of a project. To help you get started, we have 7 free budget templates that you can download right now. 7 Budgeting Templates for Business and Project Budgeting Below are seven budget templates that you can use for estimating your project’s costs.

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The Budgeting Process in Business & Project Management

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 6, 2023

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. What Is a Budget?

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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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Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Budgeting Approaches

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 4, 2024

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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Capital Projects: Capital Planning, Budgeting and Funding

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Let’s take a look at capital projects, explore the idea of a capital asset and delve into the process of capital planning. They’re initiated to help a company grow. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software with powerful Gantt charts that organize tasks, resources and costs. What Is Capital Budgeting?

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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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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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Project Intake Process: Prioritizing Project Requests & Proposals

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2024

However, problems occur when requests are submitted without a standardized process. To avoid that, you need an intake process. A project intake process is beneficial for an organization. We’ll also outline the project intake process, what should be included and who’s responsible for overseeing the process.

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How to Create a Project Initiation Document (Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

JULY 26, 2023

That’s why a project initiation document (PID) is so important. We’ll explore its importance and how to create a project initiation document, including all its many components. You can even download a free project initiation document template for Word to help you get started. What Is a Project Initiation Document (PID)?

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Organizational Process Assets: Definitions, Examples & Templates

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Some of these are called organizational process assets. These organizational process assets are critical to a project’s success and its operations. To make sure you understand what organizational process assets are, first, we’ll define the terms and explain their importance. What Is an Organizational Process Asset?

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Order Fulfillment: Process, Models & Documentation

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 3, 2024

Products go through many processes before they reach a customer. What is order fulfillment and how does it differ from order processing and order management? We’ll explain that, the order fulfillment process and list the different types of order fulfillment models. That’s called order fulfillment.

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The Order Management Process Explained (Free Templates Included)

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 10, 2024

We’ll explain what order management is and explore how an order management process is conducted. There are, of course, people behind the order management process. We’ll define those roles and link to some free templates to download, which will help users facilitate the order management process. What Is Order Management?

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The 5 Phases of the Construction Process (Templates Included)

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We’ll define in depth each of the five construction phases: initiation, pre-construction, procurement, construction and post-construction. From the smallest to the largest and most complicated, they’re broken down into five construction phases to detail all the steps necessary to complete the project on time and within budget.

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Software Project Management: Why It’s Different

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Every project is different, of course, but the differences when managing software development projects are especially so, due to its distinct life-cycle processes. What Is Software Project Management? Software project management is the planning, managing and tracking of software development projects. Learn more.

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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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How to Manage Your Project Pipeline With Software

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 16, 2024

It shows each project as it moves from one stage to the next in the project management process, from initiation to closure. Project management software is a valuable tool for managing your project pipeline. Ideation This is the brainstorming phase of the process. Learn more What Is Project Pipeline Management?

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How to Create Marketing Budget: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But that process isn’t cheap. A marketing budget is how marketers know how much they can spend on their campaign. Understanding how to create a marketing budget is a key element of any marketing plan. Once you’ve made the marketing budget, you have to track it to ensure you stay within your marketing budget.

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How to Manage Project Environment from Initiation to Close

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You have a deadlines to meet and budgets to keep. These are things from inside and outside the project that can impact your schedule, budget, team morale and much more. When managing a project, it’s second nature to define its objectives, scope, budget and schedule—but often you neglect the project management environment.

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Construction Budget: A Quick Guide (with Examples)

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 26, 2021

Creating a construction budget, therefore, is one of the most important pieces when developing a construction plan. How do you create a construction budget, anticipate the costs for a project and track them to make sure you’re not overspending? Let’s take a look at what goes into making a construction budget. Learn More!

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What Is Change Management? Process & Models Explained

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There are several organizational change management strategies that can be applied to manage work, resources, business processes and budget allocations as well as different types of organizational changes. He is known as the inventor of an eight-step process for leading change that has become instrumental in change management strategy.

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Project Evaluation Process: Definition, Methods & Steps

ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2022

To do so, they go through what’s called the project evaluation process and make use of project management software to help them manage their team’s work, plan and evaluate their project performance. Project evaluation is the process of measuring the success of a project, program or portfolio. What Is Project Evaluation?

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Project Management Process Groups: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

To keep to your schedule and manage costs, you need to gather and process project data throughout the five PMBOK project management groups. What Are the 5 PMBOK Project Management Process Groups? Project management software helps project managers stay on top of each of these process groups. Initiating Phase.

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A Quick Guide to Strategic Initiatives

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2020

Although the term “strategic initiative” might sound like inflated business jargon, it’s far from useless. A strategic initiative is a compass that guides businesses and targets future goals. Strategic initiatives are large and complex, requiring a program manager to steer that big ship. Strategic Goals.

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Teamhood Software Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The software is aimed at firms who want to add agility to improve time to market. In my experience, those companies are proactive, project-led businesses like agencies, engineering, software and manufacturing firms. Teamhood gives you two levels of Kanban swimlanes so you can design a process that is simple and advanced.

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The Risk Management Process in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

When you start the planning process for a project, one of the first things you need to think about is: what can go wrong? Project risk management is the process of identifying, analyzing and responding to any risk that arises over the life cycle of a project to help the project remain on track and meet its goal. It’s all about process.

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Project Initiation: How to Start Your Project Off Right

ProjectManager.com

JULY 31, 2018

But if a project isn’t initiated correctly, then those hopes and expectations aren’t anchored in a solid foundation, and your project can drift off course and head for disaster. Of course, there are many steps in the successful execution of a project, but project initiation is the first and, in some ways, the most important step.

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5 Best Project Budgeting Software

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MARCH 6, 2024

Project budgeting software is necessary for managing costs and ensuring a project is profitable. In this guide, we’ll compare the best project budgeting software for project managers. You can view the project summary bar from here for an instant, real-time overview of resource and budget constraints.

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10 Steps for Successful Project Completion (Templates Included)

ProjectManager.com

MAY 15, 2024

Even project initiation gets attention, but project completion is usually mentioned as an afterthought. Project completion is more than delivering on time, within budget and meeting quality expectations. The performance of the budget and schedule are also summarized in the project completion report. That’s a mistake.

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Project Management Processes & Phases

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2018

If so, it might be time to start implementing proven project management processes and phases at your organization in order to bring your company’s workflow under control. In project management there are five phases: initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing. Initiation. Phases of Project Management.

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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. Rather, it’s a team effort guided by standardized processes, well-defined roles and responsibilities and collaboration.

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How to Build and Implement a Project Strategy

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

We’ll go over that and link to free project management templates that can help you in this process. The importance of a project strategy is simple: it helps deliver projects on time, within budget and aligned with larger strategic goals. What Is Project Strategy? Who’s Responsible for Creating the Organization’s Project Strategy?

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Smartsheet vs. ProjectManager: Which Is the Better Project Management Software?

ProjectManager.com

JULY 8, 2021

There are plenty of well-known project management solutions and many more lesser known software products on the market. Smartsheet is a work management software with the aim to get teams to collaborate. Also, as information is updated on one Smartsheet it is automatically updated throughout the software. What Is Smartsheet?

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What Is a Balanced Scorecard? (Example & Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

The balanced scorecard measures four aspects of a business or organization: finance, customers, business processes and learning and growth. Once you’ve made a balanced scorecard, you’ll need project management software to fulfill the strategic goals and the plan to get you there.

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What Is a Sales Order? (Example & Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 17, 2024

To better understand what a sales order is, we’ll define the term, list what should be included and outline the sales order process. A sales order is a document the seller creates for internal use in processing a customer order. ProjectManager’s kanban boards manage the sales order process. What Is a Sales Order?

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How to Manage Project Cash Flow

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 25, 2024

That process is called project cash flow. Project management software can help with that. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that can monitor resource utilization with real-time dashboards. You can track your planned vs. actual costs to make sure you’re keeping to your budget. Projects cost money.

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What Is Organizational Strategy in Business? (Examples Included)

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2024

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has powerful roadmaps that help managers track their initiatives, allocate resources and ensure that they’re on track to meet their long-term plans. Each department manager is responsible for leading their teams on these initiatives.

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SDLC – The Software Development Life Cycle

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2022

The software development life cycle (SDLC) is how it’s done in software development. What Is the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)? The software development life cycle (SDLC) is a process by which software is developed and deployed. After all known errors have been eliminated, the software is deployed.

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The Importance of Operational Project Management for Businesses

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 23, 2024

However, because they’re concerned with streamlining department workflows, implementing new technology or processes or even updating the company’s offerings, customers will eventually see the benefits of these improvements. No matter what the type of project is, project management software helps deliver it more efficiently.

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Project Portfolio Manager Job Description

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2023

A project portfolio manager is a professional who develops and implements portfolio management processes. This requires project management software. ProjectManager is award-winning project portfolio management software that helps project portfolio managers plan, manage and track their projects in real time.

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7 Easy Steps I Use To Close A Project Effectively (Steal my checklist!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 26, 2024

Others have been a breeze to close down because I've learned from the experience and set up a decent handover process! Of all the project management processes, closeout is probably my favorite because it's the final box to tick and it's so satisfying to know that you've finished. Done a process improvement?

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Project Initiation Guide for Beginner Level Agile Professionals

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MARCH 9, 2021

Well, project initiation is a complex science, which you should master if you are even thinking of taking the first step to initiate something. If you think that starting a project is a happy dandy process with no repercussions on the future workings of the projects then you are sadly mistaken. What is Project Initiation?

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RAG Status in Project Management: Importance & Benefits

ProjectManager.com

MAY 14, 2024

Project management software can incorporate the RAG status. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software with multiple ways to get a quick overview of the project’s performance and progress. The section on the project health goes over budget, schedule, quality and scope.

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Best Kanban Software of 2021 for Project Management

ProjectManager.com

JULY 2, 2021

While kanban boards can be literal boards with cards on them, the tool has migrated to the digital realm where kanban software’s usefulness has grown exponentially in a range of industries. The project management world took note, and a number of kanban software tools were born. Benefits of Using Kanban Software. ProjectManager.

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

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Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

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Capital Projects: Capital Planning, Budgeting and Funding

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Google Sheets Budget Template: Track Business Costs Online

Project Intake Process: Prioritizing Project Requests & Proposals

How to Create a Project Initiation Document (Template Included)

Organizational Process Assets: Definitions, Examples & Templates

Order Fulfillment: Process, Models & Documentation

The Order Management Process Explained (Free Templates Included)

The 5 Phases of the Construction Process (Templates Included)

Software Project Management: Why It’s Different

Project Budget Template for Excel

How to Manage Your Project Pipeline With Software

How to Create Marketing Budget: A Quick Guide

How to Manage Project Environment from Initiation to Close

Construction Budget: A Quick Guide (with Examples)

What Is Change Management? Process & Models Explained

Project Evaluation Process: Definition, Methods & Steps

Project Management Process Groups: A Quick Guide

A Quick Guide to Strategic Initiatives

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The Risk Management Process in Project Management

Project Initiation: How to Start Your Project Off Right

5 Best Project Budgeting Software

10 Steps for Successful Project Completion (Templates Included)

Project Management Processes & Phases

Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

How to Build and Implement a Project Strategy

Smartsheet vs. ProjectManager: Which Is the Better Project Management Software?

What Is a Balanced Scorecard? (Example & Template Included)

What Is a Sales Order? (Example & Template Included)

How to Manage Project Cash Flow

What Is Organizational Strategy in Business? (Examples Included)

SDLC – The Software Development Life Cycle

The Importance of Operational Project Management for Businesses

Project Portfolio Manager Job Description

7 Easy Steps I Use To Close A Project Effectively (Steal my checklist!)

Project Initiation Guide for Beginner Level Agile Professionals

RAG Status in Project Management: Importance & Benefits

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