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Earned Value Management (EVM): Monitoring Project Performance and Forecasting the Future

MPUG

This gap between PV and EV is what we refer to as ‘schedule variance’ As time progressed, this variance only became more pronounced. Often, in government contracts, a project that strays this far might face stop-work orders. However, there was a glaring disparity when it came to PV.

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Hard Costs vs Soft Costs in Construction: Definitions & Examples

ProjectManager.com

Some refer to these as brick-and-mortar costs, because these costs include the structure, construction site and landscape. Being able to track your resources is how you keep to your budget, and project management software helps monitor costs. Monitor construction costs in real time with ProjectManager’s live dashboards.—

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5 Best Project Management Certifications and Courses of 2019

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Project Management certifications, or a certified professional are not essential to an organization’s core structure, but their involvement makes a difference in ten folds. The nature of the certification, in turn, determines how the skills of a certified IT Project Manager can be applied and benefited from.

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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. Below, I list the best agile books for your certification studies. They all feature on PMI’s exam reference materials list. It talks about measuring and monitoring velocity during an iteration too.

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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. Cross-reference. Cross-reference: See below. Cross-reference: Commonly used to cross-reference assumptions and risks, this field can also be used to track these items in other project documents. Notes: See below.

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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Monitoring the project’s finances and cost throughout the project lifecycle is a key responsibility. Monitor schedule progress throughout a project; a metric like schedule performance index (SPI) is often quite helpful for this. Governance risk. Certain industries have specific governance requirements.

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What is Project Management

MPUG

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. Time, Money, Scope Frequently, people refer to project management as having three components: time, money, and scope.