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Construction Superintendent Job Description, Responsibilities and Salary

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They are there to monitor the progress of the project. They do this from the planning phase to the completion of the project. But beyond monitoring the schedule, they also monitor the budget, as we’ve noted above. The construction superintendent will also allocate and monitor project budgets.

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Top 10 Project Management Qualifications

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Project Planning Project planning is organizing tasks, the resources needed to complete them, costs and schedules to deliver a product or service by the deadline. Project planning is the second stage in project management, after initiation and before execution, monitoring and controlling and closing.

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Project Financial Management: Managing Project Financials

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Our real-time dashboards give project managers a high-level overview of project costs whenever they want them. Dashboards have easy-to-read graphs and charts that track five other project metrics, too. ProjectManager’s live dashboard captures project costs in real time.

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Exploring the differences: Projects vs operations examples

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects usually require project management practices to help them get delivered. Even if you aren’t using a formal lifecycle or specific methodology, you’ll still be planning, executing, controlling, and monitoring tasks in order to meet objectives – that’s project management. More on that later.

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Project Cost Estimation: Overview of the Process, Main Challenges, and Recommendations

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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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Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

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Determine the Feasibility of the Project At this point, you’ve found a project and you want to evaluate it. Conducting a feasibility study is a good idea. It’ll establish the feasibility of the project in technical, financial, market and operational ways. Also, ask your employees for suggestions.

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Hard Costs vs Soft Costs in Construction: Definitions & Examples

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Being able to track your resources is how you keep to your budget, and project management software helps monitor costs. ProjectManager is project and work management software that delivers real-time data on your construction project. There are many soft costs in construction. Learn More!