ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Estimate Resources: Identify what resources are needed (as well as the quantity) to complete tasks and produce deliverables. Estimate Duration: Figure out how long each task will take to complete and estimate the duration of the entire project timeline. See how long each task is taking: Compare this to the time you estimated.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s not easy to estimate demand, but the more factors you consider, the more accurate your demand forecasting will be. Taking the time to engage in demand planning can help you mitigate those risks. Scenarios: Create various scenarios that consider possible risk factors and their impact on your targets.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 10, 2023

The scheduling engine not only helps teams forecast project delivery with accuracy, but also provides insights along to way to help teams navigate project risk and adapt to change. Finally, add an estimate to your work. Add a best case, worst case estimate to capture the uncertainty that comes with every project.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2021

Aggregate production planning also lets manufacturers know what staff, materials, output rates, timeline estimates and budget costs they need. This reduces the risk of overproduction, which wastes resources, depresses prices and can lead to oversaturation of your product in the market. Resource Management.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Top-down estimating is a form of estimation where existing knowledge of similar projects is used in the estimation process to produce a ballpark figure for the total cost. Like other methods to estimate a new project’s cost , top-down estimation has advantages and disadvantages. What is top-down estimating?

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 26, 2016

Often times, risks occur and project managers lack adequate schedule reserves. If a project is estimated at 120 days, the project manager may add a 10% pad, an additional 12 days. The project manager estimates the project duration to be 132 days. It provides reserves, but let’s look at a better way to estimate reserves.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk in addition to the usual features associated with delivering value.

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Often times, risks occur and project managers lack adequate schedule reserves. If a project is estimated at 120 days, the project manager may add a 10% pad, an additional 12 days. The project manager estimates the project duration to be 132 days. It provides reserves, but let’s look at a better way to estimate reserves.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

This article, 7 Ethics Tips For Project Managers , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was “estimated” rather than created totally randomly from scratch. But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact.

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Project Risk Coach

JULY 23, 2018

It's easy to miss project risks. And, until a project manager has identified the threats and opportunities, the risks cannot be managed properly. Projects rise and fall with the project manager's ability to properly identify and manage their most significant risks. Neither can project managers afford to miss the critical risks.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Parametric estimation is a crucial estimation technique in project management. That’s because parametric estimations are highly accurate and take some guesswork from your estimation process. What is parametric estimating? The more granular the parameter, the more accurate the estimate.

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MPUG

JANUARY 8, 2024

The solution, of course, is estimating. There is a whole science to estimation, and it would be possible to go very deeply into this. But before we start, let’s tackle the Estimation Elephant in the Room…. The estimation techniques they use are a deliberate trade-off between speed and accuracy.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 15, 2023

With Workload Views , access key insights about employee workload and project risk in one place so you can easily make decisions and keep your projects moving forward. See each person’s capacity and utilization, then leverage Planning Intelligence and make the necessary changes to mitigate schedule risk. No more risk.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

There are three types of cost overrun: Technical – This is due to bad estimates, or not enough data being collected when formulating the budget. The more thorough and accurate your estimates, the more likely you’ll stay within budget. There are risks, but those can be accounted for with an exhaustive risk management plan.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Below are 5 of the areas where I know people struggle with skills, and a couple of tips about how you can improve in those areas. Skill #2: Managing risks Risk management is a core skill for a project manager, and one that I would hesitate to ‘outsource’ to a team member. Then schedule around people, not tasks.

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Ganttic

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Get started with our guide and 5 actionable tips for improving resource allocation planning. You can allocate the right amount of time involved in project schedules and task estimates. 5 Tips for Improved Resource Allocation Planning You know about different types of resource planning and how to use resource planning tools.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We often plan a project with this overly optimistic mindset — never considering the myriad of project risks out there. So we’ll explore the most common project risks (and how to prevent them) in this guide. 11 common types of project risks It’s important to remember that risks don’t always appear as a dark, foreboding catastrophes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 3, 2022

Tip: Mention learnings from previous projects in here. Tip: The roles and responsibilities section can help you identify resource requirements. Risk management plan. Here’s where you set out how you are going to manage risk. If your company has a standard risk management process, refer to that here.

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Project Risk Coach

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Vague risk statements lead to poor risk response planning. When organizations or project teams fail to respond to significant risks (i.e., Risk management starts with identifying risks and writing clear risk statements. Why do people define risks poorly? Test Your Risk Statements.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In Review: How to Estimate Tasks and Dependencies. As Devin said, estimating time on a project is a bit of a guessing game. People aren’t great at estimating activity task duration. That said, Devin walked through a number of ways to do the best you can to estimate how long a task may take on your project.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 1, 2022

Project cost estimation can be challenging, especially when the project is complicated and has many moving parts. In this guide, you’ll learn: What a project cost estimate is Why most project cost estimates are terrible How to create an accurate project estimate What to do after creating your project cost estimate.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As we covered in How the Scheduling Engine Works , LiquidPlanner pays special attention to your team’s availability, ranged estimates of the work, and the priority of the work in your portfolio in order to provide you with scheduling visualizations, workload insights, and risk notifications. Want to learn more? See you next time!

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

“ I’ve done this a million times–let’s skip estimating just this once.”. You rush through the beginning estimates only to miss deadlines, blow budgets, and draw raised eyebrows from clients. In this guide we’ll cover: What are project estimation techniques? What are project estimation techniques? Cost estimations.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

3 Is an Opportunity a Risk, Really? Project managers may use qualitative and quantitative risk analysis to evaluate opportunities. Consequently, these project managers and team members fail to take advantage of these upside risks. Therefore, negative risks are considered to be threats and positive risks are opportunities.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 6, 2022

No wonder project managers find it difficult to estimate the schedule and budget. Additional Tip: Use Multiple Perspectives There’s a reason that Sherlock Holmes could always solve each mystery. Consider the individual risks plus ambiguity, complexity, and volatility. The plot thickens over time, creating tension. So should you.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 28, 2023

The predictive scheduling engine takes into account your work estimates, availability, and priority to show when your projects are likely to finish, but that’s not all. You can use Target Dates to guide the scheduling engine and visualize risk in real time. You can see any work that is at risk and get the schedule under control.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Poor estimates . Project estimation involves prediction of time, cost, and resources required for completing a project. As a result, all the project participants have a clear understanding of what the project scope will be, how much time and money they will need to complete it, and what possible risks there are. Scope changes .

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 18, 2021

One of the reasons that project managers fail to properly estimate their projects is they miss key activities when developing their schedules. Tip: When creating the WBS, use nouns for your deliverables , not verbs. The post How to Create a Work Breakdown Structure appeared first on Project Risk Coach. Why does this happen?

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Poor estimates . Project estimation involves prediction of time, cost, and resources required for completing a project. As a result, all the project participants have a clear understanding of what the project scope will be, how much time and money they will need to complete it, and what possible risks there are. Scope changes .

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Because GANTT charts are static, any changes to estimates, availability, budget, scope, and priorities call for manual calculations to come up with new deadlines for your whole project or portfolio. LiquidPlanner shows you the future by transforming ranged estimates into Schedule Bars that capture uncertainty and dynamically adapt to change.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

They show whether the work leads to a milestone, identifies risks and how to mitigate them, helps with estimating costs and much more. Risks: You must identify risks and create a mitigation plan. 5 Essential Tips for Work Packages in Project Management.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Estimate Your Project Duration The project duration is the total amount of time needed to complete the project. Estimate Your Project Costs Project costs refer to the financial investment for delivering the project. Each of these costs must be accurately estimated and added together to determine the project’s budget.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

They develop strategies, develop IT risk management plans and maintain schedules and budgets. They also work towards reducing risk and provide status reports to clients. She shared five pertinent tips on how to take your career to the next level. Reignite your passion. Expand your network.

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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 4, 2023

LiquidPlanner’s scheduling engine helps you account for uncertainty through ranged estimation and real-time forecasts. As conditions in the plan change, they monitor updates and alert you to risk before it’s too late. When an item has gone beyond its work limit, a risk alert icon will appear. What to learn more?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

Project Budget The project budget is the estimated costs of the project. Project Risks Risks can be positive or negative, the former can help the project and the latter hurt it. Pro Tip : Project dashboards allow you to identify areas that need more project management oversight at-a-glance.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Use Gantt charts to accurately plan, real-time dashboards to analyze live data and other features to manage tasks, risk, resources and more. How to Avoid Project Failure: 5 Key Tips Projects fail for many reasons. Without a project plan, you’re risking failure. Project Budget Template A project budget estimates all your costs.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Without a harmonious project team, your project could be at risk of unhappy stakeholders and clients, delayed timelines, and every PM’s greatest nightmare … scope creep. Control project risk, build a flourishing team, and always deliver on time with LiquidPlanner. Think again. Schedule a demo today.

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