ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 25, 2024

Those funds have a life cycle of their own and project managers must understand how those costs come in and out of the project and organization. We’ll look at project cash flow, what it is and how to calculate and manage it. The post How to Manage Project Cash Flow appeared first on ProjectManager.

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JUNE 6, 2024

Download Excel File How to Make a Control Plan for Manufacturing When making a control plan for manufacturing, there are seven basic steps developed by cross-functional teams that understand the process being controlled and can identify more opportunities for improvement than a team dedicated to only one manufacturing aspect.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A work handover email to your manager is one of the steps to make the transition out of a job happen smoothly, and here’s how to write one. How to write your handover notes In my experience, it’s difficult to sit down and write all handover notes in one go. Read next: How to Add Projects in LinkedIn. Because you never know.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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. The Project budgeting process: How to structure your project budget Top down budgeting is where the sponsor gives you the total amount available and you work out how you are going to split that.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Your project management philosophy is essentially your guiding principles for how you approach your work. It could be aligned to a methodology or a tailored approach that sums up how you like to lead. How to come up with your personal project management philosophy. What is a project management philosophy?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 27, 2023

Resource management is planning, getting and using the resources that you need to do your project efficiently. Often, organizations use ‘resources’ as an unfriendly shorthand for ‘people’.

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You can count on technical projects, no matter how well-planned, to involve change orders, re-prioritization and the regular appearance of surprises. Knowing how to prioritize work affects the success of your project, the engagement of your team, and your role as a leader. Related: How to Better Prioritize Work and Projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2022

I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. She’s even written the book on it. Ruth, let’s start at the beginning. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important?

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 23, 2024

How to Write a Client Brief Writing a client brief provides clarity and eliminates uncertainty in the working relationship between a client and the agency. The post How to Write a Client Brief (Example & Template Included) appeared first on ProjectManager. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 2, 2024

Learn more How to Make a Canva Gantt Chart Better With ProjectManager Don’t let Canva keep the power of a Gantt chart beyond reach. How to Create a Canva Gantt Chart If you’re still curious about how to make a Canva Gantt chart, we’ve outlined what you should know. Here are some of them.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Before work hits the production line, one must know how to calculate manufacturing cost. We’ll get to how to calculate the manufacturing cost of production and delivery, but just as important is the ability to track those costs throughout the life cycle of your production to ensure you’re operating within your budget.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2022

How to create a rolling wave plan. It’s a calculated move to show progress with creating a realistic and reasonable schedule, which makes it a good technique to use when you have multiple projects, because you are often under pressure to get going with delivery right now.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2024

Below, you’ll see my simple guide to how to be a great meeting facilitator. If you don’t have time for a meeting at all, I have some tips on how to communicate outside of meetings that will help. Say things like: Our key goal today is to decide how to take the survey results forward, so let me bring you back to that That’s interesting.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 12, 2024

Now, let’s learn how to make a Gantt chart in Google Docs. How to Make a Gantt Chart in Google Docs If you’re still not ready to move forward with software, you can make a Gantt chart in Google Docs. Spreadsheet users might want to check our step-by-step guide on how to make a Gantt chart in Google Sheets.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2024

If you’ve been in the project management game for any length of time, you know how important it is to understand who you’re dealing with and how to keep things running smoothly. Here are 5 types of project customer that you may come across, along with some tips about how to manage your relationships with them like a pro.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

How to Create a Project Strategy An organization must conceive a project strategy before identifying projects that will help achieve its long-term goals. The post How to Build and Implement a Project Strategy appeared first on ProjectManager. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 21, 2024

What is production efficiency and how does an organization calculate it? Once a manufacturer understands what production efficiency is and how to calculate it, then they need to try and improve it. How to Improve Production Efficiency Not every business will have such a high efficiency when calculating their production efficiency.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 12, 2024

This article first appeared on Rebel's Guide to Project Management and can be read here: Project Risk Management: How-to guide (with tips) Use a risk and issue log to record and manage your risks (and issues). Risks should be included in your project status reports.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 26, 2023

These approach emotions are a prerequisite for successful project delivery because they enable us to collaborate, think about how to be creative at work and to be highly productive. In contrast, when we feel psychologically safe, the brain generates emotions such as excitement, trust, joy and love.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 1, 2024

To understand effective warehouse operations, you must first be clear on the warehouse operations process and how it plays into the larger warehouse operations management. Read about that and how to improve the efficiency of warehouse operations. What Are Warehouse Operations? Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 16, 2024

Learn how to create a timeline that can be used to visualize how tasks or projects will be executed over time, identify who will be responsible for completing them and identify milestones and deliverables. But there are some other advantages of learning how to make a timeline in Excel using our method. Here are some of them.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 11, 2022

Here’s how to showcase your projects on your CV (as we call a resume here in the UK, and I’ll use both terms interchangeably in this article) to make it clear what you are capable of. I’ve included some examples below so you can see how to phrase your resume sections. Here’s how to do it. Decide how to present the projects.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

How To Manage Stakeholder Expectations In 6 Steps It can be a challenge to manage stakeholder expectations, but it’s an important part of project management. You’ll place each stakeholder in the appropriate quadrant to better understand how to deal with them. This boosts morale and productivity.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 5, 2024

Learn how to create a maintenance schedule and download a free maintenance schedule template to get started. Read about the benefits of an effective maintenance schedule and see how a maintenance plan can help a diverse group of industries. A maintenance schedule ensures those tasks are done regularly.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 8, 2022

Planning is an essential part of what project managers do, so you would expect there to be some mention of how to deal with fixed date projects in the PRINCE2® manuals. Project managers still need some guidance on how to manage projects that have a fixed date. There isn’t. Unfortunately, when does any methodology get applied perfectly?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Learn more The AI spectrum for tools Using these two dimensions as guidance, project professionals can decide how to use AI tools on a spectrum that ranges from automation to assistance and, finally, augmentation. PMI also has a free foundational AI course , complete with information on how to strengthen inputs for GenAI tools.

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APRIL 2, 2023

It gives you a breakdown of how to define success which might help you avoid a failing project in the first place. Any of those options are OK because the uncertainty has gone. If you’ve read this far, click through to my definitive guide to project success criteria next.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 2, 2022

So here’s the secret: in this article I’m going to show you how to expand your problem solving toolkit by using your lessons learned log to uncover potential solutions. You know how to run a brainstorming session to help with problem solving; brainstorming for lessons learned is exactly the same process.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Following that, we’ll go step-by-step on how to make a construction timesheet and provide you with a free template to download to help you get started with your construction timesheets. How to Make a Construction Timesheet For a construction timesheet to accomplish all of these things, it needs to be made with the correct information.

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