Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2024

This article reviews and explains the 10 project management Knowledge Areas from the PMBOK® Guide -- Sixth Edition. Basically, each Knowledge Area (which you might see abbreviated to KA) is a category of concepts and processes with a common goal. How many knowledge areas are there in project management?

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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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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

What qualifications do you need to land a project management job? What Are Project Management Qualifications? Being qualified for a position as a project manager means you have the skills, experience and temperament for the job. Qualified project managers need the right tools for the job.

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Epicflow Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

This article is inspired by the webinar featuring Epicflow co-founder Jan Willem Tromp and professor Mario Vanhoucke based on his latest book “The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”.

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

By: Dr. Michael Shick, MSPM, PMP, CSM Are you a project manager struggling to predict the risks in your projects accurately during planning? Do you find yourself overcome by the inherent uncertainty of project variables like cost or schedule and worried about how they might impact your project's success?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But there are a lot of elements to any successful project charter. 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.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 10, 2022

A successful project starts with a successful estimate. To properly schedule the work to execute your project, you need to know the timeline, costs, scope, risk and more. All of these considerations are part of project estimation techniques. What Are Project Estimation Techniques?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 22, 2022

Project accounting, as with general accounting, is a method by which project managers can manage project finances. Project accounting is not the same as balancing your checkbook or even seeking the service of a certified public accountant as it’s unique to project management. Learn more.

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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? Indirect Expenses.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 17, 2022

The triple constraint of project management has been given many names – the Project Management Triangle, Iron Triangle, and Project Triangle – which should give you an idea of how important the Triple Constraint is when managing a project. What Is the Triple Constraint in Project Management?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Project documentation, such as the project budget, project schedule or project plan, is critical for the successful delivery of projects. Because of that, as a project manager, you should be familiar with tools to create your project documents. Microsoft Word is one of those tools.

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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. If that person is a product manager , he or she may apply a product breakdown structure (PBS). ProjectManager has Gantt charts that show you the entire project on a timeline.

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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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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A production schedule template is an essential part of your supply chain management. It helps you manage your resources effectively and even supports the sales team as they know when products will be delivered and available for sale. Gantt charts have been essential project management tools for over a century.

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 26, 2021

Think about it for a minute – what have you done in the last six months to improve your cost management? How many of your projects came in over budget? Let's look at some practical ways to actually improve your cost management. The project sponsor told him that he had $100,000 for the project.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

What do you need to know to succeed at project management? While there’s some truth to that joke, it’s not helpful to the student or the experienced professional who is looking for a way to understand the myriad responsibilities of being a project manager. What is PMBOK in Project Management? Everything!

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 26, 2023

Before you can start a project — even before you can plan it — you first need to define the project in detail. This allows the project manager to get buy-in from the project’s key stakeholders and ensure all the research has been done to move into the planning phase without any hiccups.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 29, 2022

Project managers know the importance of having project documentation. Project documents must be accurate and constantly updated to keep current with the project. Creating and managing project documentation throughout the project life cycle is critical for project success, but where to start?

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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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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Project Cost Management often puts people off. But there’s little your project sponsor, your client, or their Finance Director care about more than your budget and how closely you can stick to it. Project cost over-runs are common. The governance considerations for project cost management.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2023

There’s more than one way to manage a construction project. Along the way, we’ll explain why lean construction can benefit your project and how the right project management software can help you take advantage of lean construction. ProjectManager has Gantt charts to manage your lean construction.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 29, 2021

Risks matter. Stuff happens on projects, and if the worst happens, it’s better to know about it in advance. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. What’s a risk again? Internal risks. Lack of support.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 12, 2021

What Are Time and Materials on a Construction Project? The term “time and materials” refers to the amount of time and construction materials that a contractor or subcontractor requires to execute the project. Time and materials are often referred to by the shorthand T&M. Easy Time Management.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 6, 2020

It’s a timeless illustration of a communication breakdown—now imagine that happening over a year-long project. Even if you’ve built an airtight project plan, you’re not getting past your first milestone without proper communication management. What is Project Communication? Why is Communication Management Important?

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2018

One of the biggest challenges of every project manager is project constraints. They limit a project, and they can quickly endanger your project’s success. Hence, it’s important to know all possible constraints, their influences on each other and the project management tools that address those constraints.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In this article, we will discuss the different types of assumptions, their links to other parts of the project, the real reason why you need to have them documented, and how to manage them during the project lifecycle. Here are a few categories of common assumptions and how they may impact your projects. Financial/Budget.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 13, 2022

Projects need management. Much of the focus of project management is obviously on methodologies that keep your project on time and within budget. That’s where project selection comes in. Project selection is all about picking the right project at the right time for your organization.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

Project managers , who have just begun working on a project, may find it really stressful and time-consuming to manage multiple tasks, especially if they don’t know the basics. . Imagine you get a promotion as a project manager and are now solely responsible for various management tasks. Dependencies.

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Function Point

APRIL 12, 2023

But a lack of emphasis on the agency project management process can seriously derail your creative team’s best efforts. This is where a Project Management Checklist can help keep you on track. Even the most organized project managers need to take time to regularly reevaluate processes for efficiencies.

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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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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 23, 2021

By including information about communication and changes, construction contracts streamline the decision-making process. Ideally, project risks have been anticipated and the contract outlines on how best to proceed. Construction projects, in particular, often require owners to hire several different contractors.

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Project-Management.pm

MARCH 14, 2017

Projects involved a lot of planning , implementation , and not to mention tracking or detecting issues and problems within the team or the project, and surpassing the following process. It also means successfully identified the stakeholders and risks and the project are already in the plan, ready for implementation.

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nTask

JANUARY 4, 2021

These types include “natural project termination” and “unnatural project termination”. Natural termination of a project refers to those projects that reach the project close because the aims of the project have been completed. Natural termination is the successful completion of a project.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 4, 2023

I view a project schedule as a roadmap for success. When properly developed and proactively managed, project teams and project managers can feel confident they will be successful. I have led projects for more than 30 years and continually improve my project management skills to help project teams be successful.

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Resource Guru

JANUARY 17, 2023

We might think that “oh, I don’t need a project scope, I’ve done thousands of projects like this!”. As project managers, defining and planning projects is what we do. That means everything starts with creating a project scope. What is scope in project management? Project justification .

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 22, 2021

Resources are the largest contributor to successful project delivery , and project managers spend significant time planning and managing their activities. Both resource and project managers work in tandem to develop resourcing strategies for projects. What is project resource management?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 1, 2019

Sometimes leading a team, project or organization goes well. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you crisis management techniques to help you successfully lead during a disaster. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference. In Review – Crisis Management: How to Lead During a Crisis. Sometimes it doesn’t.

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