ProjectManager.com

MARCH 20, 2024

Many people work on them, from general contractors overseeing subcontractors to architects and, of course, the project owner. To help you once you break ground on your construction project, we’ll throw in some free construction project management templates on estimating, scheduling and budgeting. What Is a Preconstruction Meeting?

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APRIL 2, 2023

When a program is failing, you should define the problem and potential solutions, and alert stakeholders at the first sign of trouble, according to LeRoy Ward, Executive VP at ESI. He warns that if you make large changes you push the project off course and it can take a while before you see what you have done.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We’ll get to that and define the various project financials before getting into the process of managing a project’s finances. To do this requires planning, estimating, budgeting, funding, managing project expenses and billing. That includes the project goals, deliverables, tasks, and, of course, costs.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

Find a term you want defined that isn’t on this project management glossary? Baseline A baseline is an estimate of the project’s scope, schedule and costs that is created during the planning stage. Business Plan A formal document that clearly defines the business goals of a project and how to attain them.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 22, 2024

Make Kanban Board Columns to Define Your Workflow Stages The first thing you should do is to create kanban board columns that make sense to you and can help you reflect the stages of completion of your tasks. Get your free Kanban Board Template Use this free Kanban Board Template for Excel to manage your projects better.

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MARCH 22, 2024

This contractor payment schedule is defined in the construction contract and sets pay over regular intervals across the project schedule. Frequency: Define the timing of payments, such as due dates or the intervals at which payments must be made. Terms: Define the payment terms, as in any penalties or invoicing requirements.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2023

7 Budgeting Templates for Business and Project Budgeting Below are seven budget templates that you can use for estimating your project’s costs. A budget proposal is a document that estimates the cost of executing a potential project. To help you get started, we have 7 free budget templates that you can download right now.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Let’s define it, explain when it’s used and explore how to make one. This also allows them to estimate the time left in the sprint or project. That’s a simple but effective way to measure progress and estimate how much time is left in the sprint or project. What you need is a burn up chart. Not familiar with a burn up chart?

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MPUG

JANUARY 8, 2024

The Project Management Institute defines a project as “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.” The solution, of course, is estimating. There is a whole science to estimation, and it would be possible to go very deeply into this. We need simple techniques that get us close enough.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 30, 2023

To understand what general conditions are, we’ll define the term as it relates to construction and why the term is important. We’ll go further, explaining how to estimate general condition costs and how general conditions compare to construction specifications and general requirements.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Organizations define a high-level view of their direction with a strategic roadmap. Defines a Timeline for the Achievement of Strategic Goals Strategic goals can be defined, but to achieve them requires a plan and a realistic schedule. This is the lodestar you’ll follow and it should be clearly defined.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Before explaining how to make a construction phase plan, let’s first define the term and note some of the many reasons why one should use it. Arrangements for Managing the Construction Phase Work The management arrangements are detailed in this section as they pertain to the health and safety procedures so they are clearly defined.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. Scrum is a project management framework with well-defined roles, guidelines and procedures that ensure this methodology is implemented consistently. Likewise, if the tasks are not well-defined, then you’re going to have inaccuracies.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 5, 2023

To understand cost control, let’s first define it and then we’ll show the steps you can take to implement cost control. Estimate Costs Now that you’ve listed the resource requirements, you’ll want to estimate how much each of those will cost. The more accurate you are, the better, of course. Estimating can be daunting.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Estimating Costs Accurately to Create a Project Budget Projects cost money. Accurate estimates of those costs can often impact the profit margin. There, the project manager needs to set up rules and procedures, define expectations, establish communication and more. That’s called a change management plan.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Of course, your education and experience will impact many construction job titles you’d be eligible for, which is why we’ve listed the most common construction job titles. Construction Estimator As the name implies, a construction estimator is the professional responsible for forecasting the cost of a construction project.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We’ll define in depth each of the five construction phases: initiation, pre-construction, procurement, construction and post-construction. Programming and feasibility are where the planning team defines the project’s objectives and goals. Construction project management has five phases, the same as any project.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 18, 2023

To further help, there is a change order template included and, of course, how construction project management software goes even further. It’s a document that defines a change in the scope of work. More construction projects than not will have at least one over the course of the project’s life cycle.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 4, 2024

Let’s start with defining both bottom-up budgeting and top-down budgeting as well as looking at the advantages and disadvantages of each budgeting approach. Executives will appreciate that bottom-up budgeting leads to more accurate estimates throughout the organization. This provides you with an overall budget for the company.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Of course, this is done in order to complete your project on time and on budget. It is typically made up of four processes: resource planning, cost estimation, budgeting and cost control. Cost Estimation. For projects that are lacking fine print, less accurate cost estimation techniques will still be valuable during this stage.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 26, 2023

Before you can start a project — even before you can plan it — you first need to define the project in detail. To understand why, let’s define the term and compare it to other project documentation. A project initiation document (PID) is used to define the project thoroughly.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 27, 2022

There are differences between PERT and CPM, of course, which is why they work so well together when calculating the time it’ll take to complete tasks in your project. To better understand that relationship, let’s first define both, explore how they differ and see the ways they work together when managing a project.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 8, 2024

To understand capacity management, we’ll first fully define the term, list the different types and explain why it’s so important in operations management. Of course, this assumes there will be an increase in demand just around the corner and the additional output will cover that increased demand.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2024

Let’s define a few in comparison to an RFI in construction. As we’ve already defined, RFI construction documents clarify questions about specifics during construction. The RFQ asks how a vendor or contractor should handle a specific aspect of a project, from cost estimation to work descriptions. There can also be attachments.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Let’s first define lean portfolio management and then delve into how it works. These principles are defining value, mapping the value stream, creating flow, establishing pull and pursuing perfection. Of course, you have to find those inefficiencies first. This is defined by the customer’s needs from the portfolio.

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JULY 5, 2023

There are others, of course, such as the schedule, quality, safety and much more. It begins with the planning and design and goes hand-in-hand with estimating and even on-site specialty contractors, change orders and the finished product. It’s a long yet thorough process and is more accurate than a top-down estimation.

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MPUG

JULY 8, 2019

That is why duration estimation is one of the most important aspects of project management. In most real life scenarios, clients and mangers are reasonable, giving us some freedom to determine duration estimates for doing our tasks, but this can create other problems. The Estimation Problem. Can there be “exact estimates”?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 20, 2023

We’ll define the term and explain its importance. Let’s take a moment to define each of these types of construction submittals. It further defines the project in the design stage by making it easier to define the essential and nonessential submittals. What Is a Construction Submittal?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 25, 2022

Define what the meeting is for and what we are expecting as a result: an agreement, approval, a work plan, etc. It’s not a guarantee of course but the possibility of the participants being in the meeting will be greater, and also the possibility to re-schedule will be smaller. Let’s dive into the tips! Before the meeting.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The four types of project management methods are: Data gathering and analysis methods Estimating methods Meetings and events Other (because it’s always worth having a bucket category for anything else, right?). Estimating methods. Here are four estimating methods. There are, of course, a lot more, but these are common ones.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the dynamic business environment, companies need accurate estimations for timely decision-making and futureproofing workforce availability against market volatilities. It is a step-by-step process that project managers can implement to estimate and allocate resources effectively.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It’s very much like the project proposal defined above in that it goes into background, processes and more. Define Explain the reason for the project, such as the problem it solves or the niche it fills. This will define the purpose of the project. The purpose of the project is explained in the project description.

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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. To distinguish between other transactional documents, we’ll define a sales invoice and purchase order and how they differ from sales orders. We will define that process in the next section.

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JULY 11, 2023

To understand what that means, we first have to define what a business budget is, which we’ll do in a moment. One of the main objectives of a business budget is to identify the business’ available funds and estimate how much will be spent over a period of time. Every business, even a not-for-profit business, needs a budget.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This will include an accurate estimate of decentralized IT spending and shadow IT spending, the former being the distribution of functions, control and information, while the latter is IT-related hardware and software use without the knowledge of the IT department. That spending can come from a range of sources.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Identify Your Project Goals The first step is to define the project goals. Define the Scope of Your Project To understand where your team needs to be allocated you first have to understand the project scope. These cost estimations are particularly important because they will determine if it’s possible to hire more employees.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Estimation is an invaluable tool for anticipating and managing project uncertainties. Accurate project estimates help identify cost and schedule requirements with relative precision, and reduce the risk of running out of time, resources, and budget during a project. Project Estimation Techniques. Breaking Work Down.

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