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Project Monitoring and Control: Tools & Steps

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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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Beginners’ Guide On How To Track Project Cost

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However, if you’re new to managing projects, keeping track of the money you spend might be a huge hassle. That’s why we made this budgeting primer: How to track project cost. Whatever size project or program you’re responsible for, our guide will provide the information and assistance you need to get going.

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Project Cost Estimating: How to Nail Your Estimates

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The project is spiraling out of control, scope creep is closing in, and you’re losing sleep because of all the stress. Unfortunately, this scenario is all too common for project managers. . Project cost estimation can be challenging, especially when the project is complicated and has many moving parts.

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Cost Management Basics

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Cost management is the process by which one plans and manages the budget of a business or project. In the case of a project, it helps the project manager estimate what the project will cost and set in place controls by which they can reduce the chance of the project going over budget.

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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

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These metrics are project integration, time, scope, cost, quality, human resources, risk, communications, stakeholders and procurement. After assessing these areas, a maturity stage is assigned, from standardized, measured and controlled to continuously improved.

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The Importance of Operational Project Management for Businesses

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Both strategic projects and operational projects are concerned with the future of the business, but they look at that from different angles. What Is Operational Project Management? Operational project management deals with the planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling of resources to achieve project objectives.

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Project Management Basics: Definitions, Methods and Tools

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Initiation: Here’s where you set out the project scope , the goals, the organization of the project, its business case, its constraints, who the stakeholders are, what the risks are, the project controls, the reporting framework, etc. Execution: The project begins and the project plan is put into action.