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How to Calculate Percent Complete in Project Management

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It serves the task management plan, which is a process to monitor your team’s tasks from start to finish. Percent complete is one way a project manager can track progress, which is one of the most important aspects of a project to monitor. The percent complete, again referring to our example above, is 50 percent.

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How to Create an Event Budget

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Monitoring costs in real time helps you stay on budget. An online event also referred to as a virtual event , is one that takes place on the internet. The latter is also a fixed cost, but the utility bill can be influenced by your event, which is why it lives in both categories. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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Project Scope 101

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This paperwork can be called your scope statement or terms of reference, but more often it’s referred to as a statement of work (SOW). Any change that is going to influence the project needs to be uncovered. Who are the people or groups of people both inside and outside the project who will be impacted?

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What Is a Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) In Project Management?

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Some refer to it as a should-cost analysis. Businesses can’t influence the latter but can have some influence on the former, which includes labor, raw materials and subcontracting. The only way to do this is by monitoring and controlling your project. More than just monitoring your costs, you can manage them, too.

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5 Considerations for Managing a Project Portfolio

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It’s common to bind together projects that support the same business objective into tactical programs, while I’ve often heard larger projects that contribute to different business goals informally referred to as strategic – even in the absence of an explicit portfolio management practice.

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Cost of Production: Types of Production Costs

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Fixed costs aren’t influenced by the amount you produce when in production, but are still part of the overall cost of production. Indirect costs are sometimes referred to as factory overhead and manufacturing overhead. Here are some tools that monitor your production costs.

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Project Communication Management: What is it all about?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Progress monitoring and reporting – helps through regular overview of project progress, accomplishments, path forward, and next steps. Key decisions documentation – provides a mechanism for documenting and distributing key decisions with the project team for future reference. How much does project communication cost?