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How to Fix 5 Project Management Skills Gaps

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Learn how to help your team manage risk so you can split the work between you. Boost your skills: Make sure everyone on the team knows how to manage risks and what the process is. Boost your skills: Start by understanding how to manage a change as laid out by your Project Management Office.

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How to create a project budget

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article we’ll look at how to segment costs, how to find out the cost of things, and then how to structure your budget. Don’t routinely put these costs in your project budget – if you have any doubts or you think they (or some of them) should go in, check with your finance team. Let’s look at those next.

Budget 312
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How to Secure Resources for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For example, if you’re working with the finance department, there will be particular parts of the financial year where they’re very busy. When will you/they be really busy? Getting visibility of absences is helpful for your project planning. Knowing their busy times is useful too. What roadblocks do you see?

Logistics 421
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What Is a Capital Improvement Plan & How to Create One

ProjectManager.com

That creates a dilemma: how to spend their budget. How do you go about creating a capital improvement plan document? 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. They are as follows. Submission.

Planning 333
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How to take over an existing project [Free checklist]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How can you check what you’ve got and what needs to be done next? Let me guide you through how to assess the state of the project you’ve inherited. Here are the instructions on how to write a project overview statement. How do you spend it? How much has been spent already? First, don’t panic.

PMO 301
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How to Include Projects on Your Resume/CV

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I clearly remember being asked who was the Governor of the Bank of England during an interview with a bank – obviously I was faking being interested in the finance sector as I had no clue. And that means learning how to include your projects and your project management skills. Let’s look at how to do that. Be yourself.

Finance 383
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What Is an Audit Trail & How to Conduct One

ProjectManager.com

Any business with transactions, work processes, accounting and trades can benefit from knowing what an audit trail is, the different types of audit trails and how to do one. That can be brokerage transactions in finance, medical records in healthcare and process documentation in project management. What Is an Audit Trail?