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Hard Costs vs Soft Costs in Construction: Definitions & Examples

ProjectManager.com

Being able to track your resources is how you keep to your budget, and project management software helps monitor costs. ProjectManager is project and work management software that delivers real-time data on your construction project. Monitor construction costs in real time with ProjectManager’s live dashboards.—

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What is a Statement of Work? Definition & Examples

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No matter what industry you’re in, the one constant throughout the project life cycle of a project is paperwork. Detail the billable hours per week and month, and whatever else relates to the scheduling of the project. An SOW is one of many project management documents that you’ll need to manage your projects.

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The Growth in Importance of Project Value

The IIL Blog

On the other hand, the term “project value” has had multiple interpretations based upon the type of project, when in the project life cycle the term is used, and who is using the term. There is a valid argument that VE is the contractor’s definition of value and VA is the customer’s or user’s definition of value.

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How to Write a Business Case (Template Included)

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Think of the business case as a document that is created during the project initiation phase but will be used as a reference throughout the project life cycle. It’s used to give stakeholders a quick overview of your project. Project Definition. Project Governance. Executive Summary.

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The Road to Effective Project Management Governance

Project-Management.pm

What really is project management governance? With countless articles and books in the business spectrum conveying such practice, project management governance is in the sense, subjective. In other words, a person left on his or her own device of his or her definitive understanding of governance as a whole.

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Back to Basics: What is the Difference between Process Groups and Phases?

MPUG

I was lucky that the internet was still in its infancy at that time, and I didn’t have to learn project management through dubious resources. Today, the internet is full of articles that define the five phases of overall project management as Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Controlling (M&C), and Closing.

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5 Governance Steps for Distributed Project Team Management

LiquidPlanner

Managing a distributed project team takes real skill and a definite commitment to putting a governance structure in place that enables success. This is a cardinal rule that I learned firsthand nearly two decades ago managing project teams in Korea, and it stuck with me through my career in the military.