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3 Ways to Improve Cost Estimates with Your Teams

Project Risk Coach

Do you ever feel like the Lone Ranger when working on cost estimates? Let's explore how to engage your team members and subject matter experts to improve your cost estimates. So, let's look at three techniques to use with your teams: Brainstorming Delphi Technique Nominal Group Technique 3 Team Techniques to Improve Cost Estimates 1.

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Project Financial Management: Managing Project Financials

ProjectManager.com

Whether you call it project financial management or project accounting, managing a project’s finances is essential to delivering a successful project. There’s a lot of planning, managing and tracking involved. But what exactly is financial project management? What Is Project Financial Management?

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How to Fix 5 Project Management Skills Gaps

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As a project manager, you are expected to have all-round skills encompassing the technical fields of project management like planning and scheduling, through to the interpersonal skills like communicating up and influencing others. Learn how to help your team manage risk so you can split the work between you.

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Google Sheets Budget Template: Track Business Costs Online

ProjectManager.com

Then, you can estimate their costs and add them to determine how much money you’ll need to finance your business operations. Google Sheets helps with collaboration but it isn’t a true project management software. Estimated Cost: Here you can list the dollar amount of each cost you’ve previously identified.

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IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

IT financial management (ITFM) covers the costs of keeping our network, servers and devices running. IT financial management is a bit more complicated than that and we’ll explain by more thoroughly defining the term. Then we’ll list the professionals who are tasked with IT financial management and their key objectives.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. As a project manager, it’s important to understand the difference between kanban and scrum so you can determine the best approach for your team. What Is Kanban?

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Agile Finance: How Do You Make a Business Case for Transformation?

Leading Agile

In that discussion, I covered a range of topics – Building a Business Case and the Key Financial Metrics that should be provided in your Business Case, Understanding your Company’s Software Development Costs, the Importance of Benchmarking, Importance of keeping your Asset Management current, and Capitalizing and Amortizing Software Costs.

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