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Creating Safety for Your Finance Team

Leading Agile

Today, we’re exploring what it looks like to transform the way your company finances itself in a new, agile world. But you can’t just wave a magic wand and expect the finance team to forget everything they know and start trusting that you’ll deliver what you say you’re going to deliver based on just a wink and a handshake.

Finance 75
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What Is a Capital Improvement Plan & How to Create One

ProjectManager.com

This is a tool used more often by public entities such as local governments for major public expenditures. The capital improvement plan is used to coordinate between community planning and fiscal management to determine the location, timing and financing of the capital improvement. Related: Free Estimate Template for Excel.

Planning 323
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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. You can also manually enter the estimated costs for each task to make a budget and then compare your estimates against the actual costs of your project so you can determine whether you’re over or under budget.

SCRUM 411
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How to Fund a Software Development Project

ProjectManager.com

The greater the flexibility of the funding strategy, the greater the chance the team will produce a quality product and the greater the chance that they will delight their stakeholders. But greater flexibility generally requires a more skillful approach to governance and project management. The Secure Funding Process Goal.

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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Monitoring the project’s finances and cost throughout the project lifecycle is a key responsibility. Poor estimating. Sometimes the estimates are just rubbish. More and more, estimating is getting harder (in my opinion). Sometimes the estimates are wrong; other times something else happens to disrupt your estimate.

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10 Free Manufacturing Excel Templates

ProjectManager.com

Our free template helps you define the strategy, process and actions necessary to create your final deliverable. The spreadsheet is divided into three, first where you show the strategy, then the process and finally the actions you’ll take to fulfill that strategy. Work Order Template. Project Budget Template.

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Why You Should Align Strategy, Financials, and Execution

Planview

Now, let’s get into the first two process areas by examining why it is crucial for your organization to align strategy, financials, and execution. This becomes unrealistic if the plan is disconnected from Finance and operations. Process Area 2: Aligning Strategy and Operations. Process Area 1: Strategic Planning and Funding.