PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

I’ve been managing software development projects for more than 11 years. Risk management is arguably the most crucial piece in my project management approach. Therefore, I spent lots of time and effort creating a practical risk management process. You’ll get the whole risk management process below.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 2, 2022

Projects are designed to deliver a product or a service within a specific timeframe and budget, a process that the project manager oversees. The second type of product is called the external products; these have been brought in or supplied by another project. For example, the blueprint or safety training was delivered.

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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. Before you know it, you’re mid-project and starting to feel the heat. Source Most projects “fail” for similar reasons. The most common types of risks can be filed under the label: “$#!%

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Teamweek

APRIL 19, 2024

Project managers often struggle to calculate project ROI and communicate a project’s financial value to stakeholders as they might not have the right tools or processes to do so. This guide has everything you need to start calculating the ROI of your projects, avoid scope creep, and improve project efficiency.

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PM Basics

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In this article, you’ll find the real-life project risk management plan example. It comes from my practical experience working on software development projects. Below the example, you’ll find all the required information and resources to create your Risk Management Plan quickly and for free.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Reduction of project costs and at least avoiding significant cost overrun is one of the high priority tasks for a project manager. However, it usually becomes challenging due to a great number of factors: underestimation of project costs, uncontrolled changes, poor resource allocation, etc. Poor estimates .

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Reduction of project costs and at least avoiding significant cost overrun is one of the high priority tasks for a project manager. However, it usually becomes challenging due to a great number of factors: underestimation of project costs, uncontrolled changes, poor resource allocation, etc. Poor estimates .

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

By Alan Zucker We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Until we validate them, they are risks.

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Epicflow Blog

JULY 5, 2022

Estimation of project cost is one of the core practices of the project initiation stage, which becomes the basis for the approved project budget. At the same time, the forecasted cost should not be too overestimated or underestimated. What helps make cost estimation simple and efficient?

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Or risks were identified, but a response strategy was never created.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. It’s essential to keep projects successful for any organization to thrive. This is done by using a project management maturity model. Improving an organization’s project management maturity will reap many rewards.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Even if you’re using project management software, project planning templates can help you with everything from decision making, such as with our free RACI matrix template, to identifying project deliverables, with our free work breakdown structure template. Project Plan Template A project plan is a big endeavor.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We’ll get to that and define the various project financials before getting into the process of managing a project’s finances. What Is Project Financial Management? Project financial management is the process of controlling the financial aspect of a project, such as its cost, revenue and profit.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. The scrum master is the team expert on the process, and they are instrumental in guiding the team to optimize the use of scrum in the project.

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EasyProjects

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Whether it’s designing a new product or improving upon an existing work process, nothing matters more than how much it will cost the company in the end. This is where project cost management comes into play. For this reason, a budget must be determined to ensure that the allocated project costs stay in line.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Then we can go through the capital budgeting techniques and the steps to a capital budgeting process. Finally, we’ll illustrate capital budgeting with some examples. Capital budgeting is a process by which investments in large-scale projects are analyzed, evaluated and prioritized. What Is Capital Budgeting?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 28, 2024

Even though Notion Gantt charts have some drawbacks that make them a limited tool for project management, they can still be used for many purposes, like these examples. Percentage of completion: Notion Gantt charts show the percentage of completion for each task in the visual project timeline.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This guide is most helpful for developing project budgets for projects that are approved or close to being approved, for example as input to a business case. What is included in a project budget? I find this helps me establish what’s in the project budget and what isn’t. So, let’s take direct costs first.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 19, 2022

No one needs to tell you that projects cost money. But how much they’ll cost is an open question. The closer you can come to an accurate forecast of project costs, the more likely you’ll deliver a successful project. Rough order of magnitude (ROM) can help you better estimate project costs.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

But all that really comes after knowing what quality looks like on your project. The APM BOK defines project quality as: “The fitness for purpose of the degree of conformance of the outputs of a process, or the process itself to requirements.” Good” then becomes your success criteria or quality measures.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 6, 2024

Tableau is an analytics platform that allows organizations to visualize their data on powerful yet user-friendly data analysis charts and diagrams powered by machine learning, natural language processing and predictive analytics. While Tableau doesn’t have project management features, you can still use it to make a Gantt chart.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 1, 2022

The project is spiraling out of control, scope creep is closing in, and you’re losing sleep because of all the stress. Unfortunately, this scenario is all too common for project managers. . Project cost estimation can be challenging, especially when the project is complicated and has many moving parts.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 28, 2021

In order to understand cost control, you must first understand why it is used: monitoring expenses and identifying risks in order to increase profits. Not to be confused with cost management, cost control has its own set of objectives that can save businesses money. What Is Cost Control? Try it for yourself today!

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

If you’re new to project management , a project charter template can set you up to make sure you’re hitting all the major points. We’ve included a free project template charter to help as an example of what a project charter should include. So, what is a project charter, exactly? What Is a Project Charter?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 22, 2024

Construction projects are often long and complicated endeavors. Payment is determined in the contract process, which includes the contractor payment schedule. This contractor payment schedule is defined in the construction contract and sets pay over regular intervals across the project schedule. They’re also expensive.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This is done during the execution phase and the monitoring and controlling phase of the project, two project management phases that overlap. When a project manager identifies a scope, cost or schedule variance then they have to balance the project management triangle to keep the project on track.

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Resource Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The success of a project relies on how well a project manager handles different resource constraints. The most common examples of resource constraints are limits and risks related to resource availability and project costs, scope, and time. What project managers need to know about resource utilization.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 7, 2023

Manufacturing a product or constructing a building is a complicated process, which in turn makes determining the price for that product equally difficult to discern. There are many factors that must be considered, and project managers use a cost breakdown structure to help them determine the cost of that product.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

They’re anything that’s produced or provided because of the project. Deliverables can be both the result of the project itself, but also the results of the process of the project, such as the project plan , reports or other documents. Projects are made up of deadlines.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 21, 2019

Many costs can appear over the life cycle of a project, and an accurate estimation method can be the difference between a successful plan and a failed one. Projects bring risks, and risks bring unexpected costs. Excluded costs. 12-Step Process for Cost Estimation.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Like any project management baseline, a cost baseline is used to compare actual spend versus cost estimates. Ideally, the cost estimates and actual project costs numbers should match or, better yet, the actual costs should be lower than the cost baseline. How to Create a Cost Baseline.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Project metrics are essential to delivering a project on time and within its budget. But what are project metrics? Why are they so important to a project? We’ll answer those questions and show you some examples of common project metrics. What Are Project Metrics?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2020

If something bad is going to happen on a project, it’s likely related to time, cost or scope. Project managers are well aware of this and spend much of their time planning in order to avoid negative risk and its potential impact. What Are Project Controls? Cost estimates. Risk management. Methodology.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 29, 2022

These documents, such as the project plan, project schedule or project budget, define activities, procedures and guidelines to be followed by the project team. Project documentation has several purposes, such as project planning, cost management or risk management. Project Charter.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2018

Cost: How much money is available to achieve this outcome? For example, if you decide to extend the scope and build 20 webpages instead of 10, you’ll need more time and money to achieve that adjusted goal. For example, your project’s scope may involve creating 10 webpages. Tool for Handling Risk.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2024

Think of resource requirements as the fuel that drives all project activities. Once one understands what resource requirements are in project management, next there is estimating what those resources will be and managing them. To help with this process, we’ll define resource requirements and link to a free resource plan template.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 26, 2023

It’s similar to a project charter but more in-depth. It’s used primarily in PRINCE2 methodology, which is an acronym that stands for PRojects IN Controlled Environments. A PID is linear and process based, breaking a project into defined stages and is mostly used in the UK.

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