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Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

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The time value of money is about the potential rate of return on the investment as well as the reduced purchasing power over time due to inflation. Gather Project Proposals First, you’ll want to review the various project proposals and investment opportunities. Conducting a feasibility study is a good idea.

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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Risks matter. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. However, at the beginning of your project when your risk log is empty, it can be a bit of a challenge to think of all the stuff that might need to go on there.

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Risk Breakdown Structure for Projects: A Complete Guide to RBS

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Risks will arise and threaten the successful delivery of your project. Using a risk breakdown structure (RBS) is how you prepare for the unexpected. A risk breakdown structure is great for identifying and prioritizing risks so you know which will be more or less impactful. The Four Categories of Risk in a Project.

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s an essential role… because without her, we risked putting any old thing live and ending up with software conflicts and no process to roll back changes if we messed up. The release manager at my last job worked closely with the development team to review what code changes would be coming. And then the cycle begins again!

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IT Audit: Definition & Quick Guide

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Bottom line: technology is useful, but it’s also vulnerable. An information technology audit is therefore an official examination of the IT infrastructure, policies and operations of an organization. IT audits have been going on since the mid-1960s and continuously evolving since that point as the technology advances.

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7 Secrets to Successful Project Manager/Team Collaboration

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here is what we learned from an invaluable brainstorming session with our Tech Lead. A project manager knows that these project fundamentals will guide decisions throughout the project, so their role in this initial phase is to support the team in forming a shared understanding and clear definitions of these fundamentals.

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Business Project Management Basics

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Let’s first explore the definition of business project management. Their responsibilities are the same in that they plan, review plans, schedule tasks and monitor and control projects to ensure that they’re delivered on time without overspending. Let’s take a moment to review them.