ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

Every project is different. Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. To better manage projects, one must clearly understand project strategy, who’s responsible for it in the organization and the steps to create a project strategy.

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Teamweek

APRIL 19, 2024

This guide has everything you need to start calculating the ROI of your projects, avoid scope creep, and improve project efficiency. You’ll learn proven steps, formulas, and examples to calculate and improve project ROI. What is project ROI? Make sure you clearly define what’s billable and what’s not.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 16, 2024

For example, scenario planning is great for understanding the effects of plausible events, giving financial and other departments time to prepare their response, however, scenario planning is a lengthy process and factors can change quickly , so the process must be constantly updated. ProjectManager has roadmaps for scenario planning.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 30, 2024

Cons of a Notion Kanban Board The main disadvantage of Notion kanban boards is that they have basic features that only give you an overview of your tasks and projects but lack many of the planning, scheduling and tracking features you need in project management. There are no resource or cost management features.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Projects cost money. But what’s harder to discern is if the project is worth the investment. The last thing stakeholders want is to discover the project isn’t financially effective. That’s where the cost performance index comes in. We’ll discuss what the cost performance index does and how it does it below.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 12, 2023

With ProjectManager’s API, customers can choose which system they want to integrate, define their own use cases and provide feedback via discussion boards on our dev center. You can also use these platforms to give feedback and get answers to your questions from other developers. Do you have more questions?

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Resource Guru

JANUARY 17, 2023

We might think that “oh, I don’t need a project scope, I’ve done thousands of projects like this!”. As project managers, defining and planning projects is what we do. That means everything starts with creating a project scope. What is scope in project management? Project scope definition.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 19, 2022

No one needs to tell you that projects cost money. But how much they’ll cost is an open question. The closer you can come to an accurate forecast of project costs, the more likely you’ll deliver a successful project. Rough order of magnitude (ROM) can help you better estimate project costs.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Scrum is a project management framework with well-defined roles, guidelines and procedures that ensure this methodology is implemented consistently. Scrum is often used by smaller teams in what they call sprints , made up of tasks of a shorter duration, to make the project more flexible and adaptable to change.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2024

Let’s define a few in comparison to an RFI in construction. Request for Information (RFI) vs. Request for Proposal (RFP) A request for proposal is asking for in-depth project information. These are mostly used by the client who is requesting a detailed understanding of the requirements to finish the project.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2024

Once one understands what resource requirements are in project management, next there is estimating what those resources will be and managing them. To help with this process, we’ll define resource requirements and link to a free resource plan template. What Are Resource Requirements in Project Management?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 22, 2024

Therefore, a construction payment schedule shows how they receive compensation for their work over the project’s life cycle. This contractor payment schedule is defined in the construction contract and sets pay over regular intervals across the project schedule. Or it could be whatever is defined as a milestone.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

11 common types of project risks It’s important to remember that risks don’t always appear as a dark, foreboding catastrophes. Here’s a quick summary of project risk examples for you skimmers out there: Project risk Description 1. Scope creep Changes to a project’s scope after starting 2. How can you avoid it?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

But in practice, to me that looks like a lot of project documentation, and not a lot of actual doing, so let’s talk about 12 simple ways that you can manage project quality , without it being loads of work or a drama to get right. You’ll also need to know how you are going to assure project quality. The options are: Once (i.e.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Our free project plan template for Word helps you organize all the various project management documentation needed to prepare your project for success. You get to address the planning basics, such as defining your project scope, identifying milestones and breaking the project down into manageable phases and tasks.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

This is done by using a project management maturity model. To do so, first one must understand project management maturity and what the project management maturity model is. What Is Project Management Maturity? Below are three of the more popular ones.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s more than just keeping up with costs. But what exactly is financial project management? We’ll get to that and define the various project financials before getting into the process of managing a project’s finances. Dashboards have easy-to-read graphs and charts that track five other project metrics, too.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

This vision must be clear and shared across the project team. Define Your Project Goals and Objectives Now that you have a general idea of why the project exists, you have to get a bit deeper and define its goals and objectives. That is, what does the organization want to achieve with this project?

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Epicflow Blog

JULY 5, 2022

Estimation of project cost is one of the core practices of the project initiation stage, which becomes the basis for the approved project budget. At the same time, the forecasted cost should not be too overestimated or underestimated. What helps make cost estimation simple and efficient?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 7, 2023

Labor costs are easy to identify and, therefore, the first focus of cost reduction. Material Costs Any materials that are bought by the business fall under material costs. Some examples of material costs include raw materials, parts and components and manufacturing supplies.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

First, we need to define capital budgeting, what a capital budget is and why it’s important. Finally, we’ll illustrate capital budgeting with some examples. Capital budgeting is a process by which investments in large-scale projects are analyzed, evaluated and prioritized. What Is Capital Budgeting?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 1, 2024

ProjectManager is an award-winning project management software that offers kanban boards with robust features for managing tasks and workflows in any industry. Assign tasks to your team members, track their progress and monitor project costs in real time. Get started with ProjectManager for free today.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

If you’re new to project management , a project charter template can set you up to make sure you’re hitting all the major points. We’ve included a free project template charter to help as an example of what a project charter should include. So, what is a project charter, exactly? Why does this project exist?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 9, 2024

There are so many different subcontractors and all have to work together to deliver the project on time and within budget. There are many different types of construction resources beyond labor and we’ll define them as well as the process for construction resource management. What Is Construction Resource Management?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

Learn more Why Project Risks Can Be Good We’ve all been conditioned to think of risks as negative. That brings us back to the skiing example. A simple way to identify positive risk is the same way you would identify negative risk: by working with your team to come up with a list of opportunities that could impact the project.

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PM Basics

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In this article, you’ll find the real-life project risk management plan example. It comes from my practical experience working on software development projects. Below the example, you’ll find all the required information and resources to create your Risk Management Plan quickly and for free. Introduction.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 23, 2024

This is called operational project management. 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. What Is an Operational Project?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 21, 2019

Cost estimation is the process that takes those factors into account, and calculates a budget that meets the financial commitment necessary for a successful project. Project cost estimation applies to everything from building a bridge to developing that new killer app. An Overview of Cost Estimation.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

While kanban systems were once analog, they have since moved into the digital space and are often found in project management software. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has powerful kanban features that can estimate project costs and track resource allocation.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Project metrics are essential to delivering a project on time and within its budget. But what are project metrics? Why are they so important to a project? We’ll answer those questions and show you some examples of common project metrics. What Are Project Metrics?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 1, 2024

On the left side, there’s a list of project tasks and details such as due dates, duration and assignee. Real-Time Tracking Against Your Baseline ProjectManager lets users track project costs, resource costs, task costs and expenses in real time. Linking dependent tasks helps to avoid costly delays.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

You need money to pay for the resources to meet the demands of the project within the time allotted. A project budget outlines these expenditures. Now that we’ve determined what a project is, we can define project management as a discipline. What Is Project Management? What Does a Project Manager Do?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Follow these steps to secure the funds necessary to support the project through every phase. But first, we need to define what a project budget is. What Is a Project Budget? A project budget is the total projected costs needed to complete a project over a defined period of time.

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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. This allows the project manager to get buy-in from the project’s key stakeholders and ensure all the research has been done to move into the planning phase without any hiccups.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

.” This doesn’t mean every project or program manager needs to be an accounting whiz but having a handle on project finances is indeed a make or break, “You have to try to keep within your numbers to deliver successfully,” Sol adds. 5 Tips for Managing a Project Budget. Define the project scope.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Being able to determine beforehand whether a project will turn a profit is how organizations can decide which projects to initiate and which ones to skip. We’ll define the term and explore how to analyze and measure profit profitability to help you better allocate your resources. What Is Project Profitability?

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 29, 2021

Your project may morph into a two-headed monster without an integrated change control process, resulting in adverse impacts to schedule, cost, and scope. It's critical that you define how change requests will be reviewed, approved or declined. So, who should approve project change requests? There's no one answer.

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