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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Information technology (IT) involves the use of computers, digital storage, networking and other physical devices, infrastructure and processes to create, process, store, secure and exchange electronic data. IT service management (ITSM) is the process of how those services meet the needs of the end users who employ them.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

If there’s one thing you can be certain of when managing a project, it’s change. Although it’s impossible to predict the future, with these free risk management templates, you can better prepare for the unexpected and be more apt to keep your project on track. However, templates can only do so much.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When someone makes a request in the information technology (IT) world, whatever that might be, there’s a process involved to fulfill that request. This is called a service request and controlling that process is called service request management. What Is Service Request Management?

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APRIL 28, 2021

In order to understand cost control, you must first understand why it is used: monitoring expenses and identifying risks in order to increase profits. Not to be confused with cost management, cost control has its own set of objectives that can save businesses money. What Is Cost Control? Indirect Expenses.

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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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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Simply put, quality control in manufacturing is important. Quality control in manufacturing means your customers get what they’ve paid for. Let’s learn what quality control is, some of the methods to employ it and the roles of your team to ensure quality control in manufacturing is delivered. What Is Quality Control (QC)?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 15, 2024

Project planning, execution, monitoring and controlling are often the focus of project management. Project completion is the final phase of a project’s life cycle, which starts with initiation and moves through planning, execution, monitoring and controlling to project completion. That’s a mistake.

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MAY 24, 2023

The last thing a project manager wants is a schedule conflict. But a scheduling conflict is an eventuality in project management. While it’s the project manager’s job to ensure that the workflow is unobstructed, it’s also their responsibility to resolve scheduling conflicts when they arise—a problem that’s unavoidable.

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MAY 9, 2022

Managing a project is a very challenging, but project evaluation makes it easier. But it’s not as simple as it sounds, project managers need to keep track of costs, tasks and time during the whole project life cycle to make sure everything goes as planned. What Is Project Evaluation? Get started for free. Project Evaluation Criteria.

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MARCH 8, 2022

Resource management is one of the most important aspects of project management. That’s because projects need resources and those resources must be managed. What Is Resource Management? Resource management is the process of planning, scheduling and allocating resources to complete a project. Learn More!

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Getting a product from an idea to the marketplace is a long journey that’s mapped in the production process. Another way to look at the production process is as a series of detailed steps that take you from one point to the next until you’ve completed the process. What Is a Production Process?

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

Program governance is a critical component to successfully managing a program of projects. Program governance is a practical way for an organization’s program to deliver success by guiding it and providing good management. Program management software is essential to proper program governance.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Project managers are well aware of this and spend much of their time planning in order to avoid negative risk and its potential impact. There are many tools that can mitigate risk in a project, but it also takes skill in something called project controls. What Are Project Controls? Risk management.

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MAY 16, 2024

Then we’ll explore scenario planning in business and project management before explaining the steps that must be taken to use this process. By using regular and consistent scenario planning, organizations can better allocate resources successfully, mitigate risk and decrease production costs. What Is Scenario Planning?

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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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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 managers use the five project management phases to structure projects and lead them from beginning to end.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

There is so much that can impact them; a storm cutting off the supply chain, equipment failure or a labor dispute are merely three possible situations in a seemingly endless succession of risks. It’s no wonder so much of project management is focused on risk! What is a Project Risk? Negative risk?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As a business grows, it needs to look at new processes or ways to improve the processes it has in place. Whatever the objectives, process implementation is how they achieve these goals. If you’re looking to improve your business processes , you need to know what process implementation is and why it’s so important.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

It’s a cliché to say that nothing is constant except for change, but the adage certainly applies to anyone who has ever managed a project. Whatever the change, it must be managed and analyzed, then accepted or rejected. Change control is the process used to manage all these variables. What Is Change Control?

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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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ProjectManager.com

MAY 1, 2024

Warehouse management ensures that stock matches customer demand. To understand effective warehouse operations, you must first be clear on the warehouse operations process and how it plays into the larger warehouse operations management. ProjectManager’s kanban boards help manage warehouse operations.

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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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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Managing information costs and managing information security for those costs are part of making an IT budget. Some of the items that are included in an IT budget are hardware, software, personnel, outsourcing, disaster recovery and any occupancy costs associated with the support of the IT in the organization.

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MAY 14, 2024

RAG status begins with understanding the acronym and how RAG status is used in project management. What Is RAG Status in Project Management? It’s a great technique for project managers to get a quick overview of the project, but also serves stakeholders, who want to know the big picture and aren’t interested in the details.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Most project managers can’t imagine running a project without Gantt charts. This tool has been in the project management toolbox for so long that it predates computers. We’re looking at the best Gantt chart software out there so you can make an informed decision when in the market to purchase one. What Is Gantt Chart Software?

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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. What Is Project Management? Get started for free today.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

A balanced scorecard is a strategic management performance metric. It’s a common management tool worldwide, used across industries, including government and nonprofit organizations. The balanced scorecard measures four aspects of a business or organization: finance, customers, business processes and learning and growth.

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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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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Project planning is one of the first and most important aspects of project management. Project management software does more than a static Excel or Word template, but using these free 12 project planning templates for Excel and Word is a decent substitute. Project planning templates are part of project management.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Manufacturers have to do more than produce a product, they also have to manage their operations. That’s why manufacturing operations management is so important—it keeps the lights on. Of course, there’s more to manufacturing operations management than that. What Is Manufacturing Operations Management?

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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. Phases of Project Management. In project management there are five phases: initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing.

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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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JULY 5, 2023

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. We’ll go over those definitions and explain the construction cost management process so you can manage projects better.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2019

Many project managers I speak to talk about how hard it is to stay on top of what really matters. Dashboards help. In this article we’ll look at how you can make the best use of dashboards on your project to track metrics and project health, and help with status reporting. What is a Project Dashboard? BVDash Dashboard.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

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. ProjectManager’s resource management tools balance your team’s workload.

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MAY 19, 2022

During the five process groups of the project life cycle, there are multiple objectives and outcomes for each phase. After the project initiation and the planning processes, the execution of the project begins. During this phase a project leader will focus on these key processes: Managing people. Following processes.

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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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