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What Is Positive Risk on Projects?

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Project risk. Just the word risk can evoke the same kind of primal, fight-or-flight fear in project managers. But risk shouldn’t be feared, it’s just another part of the project to manage. All projects have some element of risk while other projects are inherently high-risk. (We’re

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How to Make a Contractor Payment Schedule in Construction (Template Included)

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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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How to Start a Project in 10 Steps

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Knowing how to start a project is one of the most critical skills for any project manager. A large project (or a small one) starts with the small stuff and builds to something bigger and more complex. You need to get to work, but how you get to work is equally important. What is its purpose or reason for existence?

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15 Project Management Challenges & How to Overcome Them

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But even the best planning isn’t going to avoid challenges throughout the project. Let’s look at 15 project management challenges and how to deal with them. 15 Project Management Challenges You Should Prepare for Here are the most common challenges project managers face in their day-to-day lives.

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How to Create a Project Initiation Document (Template Included)

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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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Importance of Scenario Planning and Analysis in Business

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By using regular and consistent scenario planning, organizations can better allocate resources successfully, mitigate risk and decrease production costs. This also applies to projects, which can use scenario planning to help them respond to changes in time, costs and scope.

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How to Measure Project Profitability

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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. But what exactly is profit profitability and how does it relate to professional services teams, consultants, CFOs and accountants? What Is Project Profitability?