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Project Monitoring and Control: Tools & Steps

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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. Project controlling involves a lot of steps to thoroughly monitor the project schedule, resources and costs.

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Post-Construction Phase: How to Close a Construction Project

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For example, one construction document that we’ll define shortly is the punch list. Final Inspections The final inspection is done after the completion of the punch list (defined below in the post-construction documents section). We list and define them below. Here are some of the most important.

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How to Manage Project Environment from Initiation to Close

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When managing a project, it’s second nature to define its objectives, scope, budget and schedule—but often you neglect the project management environment. A project has five phases: initiation, planning, execution, monitor and control and close. Why Is Project Environment Important? Do this at your own peril.

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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

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Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? you can use to help you close those gaps, yet it isn’t easy. Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. And you’re not alone in this challenge.

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12 Questions for Monitoring Project Risks

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In this article, I am providing questions that can help you in monitoring project risks and as a result, achieve better results. In my last article, we looked at What Every Project Manager Should Know About Monitoring Risks where we reviewed the definition for Monitor Risk. ” When Should We Monitor Project Risks?

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The Importance of Operational Project Management for Businesses

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To better understand operational project management requires defining what an operational project is, how it differs from strategic projects and what operational project management is. Operational project management deals with the planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling of resources to achieve project objectives.

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Business Project Management Basics

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Remember, a project is defined as time-bound that delivers a product or service. Their responsibilities are the same in that they plan, review plans, schedule tasks and monitor and control projects to ensure that they’re delivered on time without overspending. Traditionally, a project goes through five stages in its life cycle.