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APRIL 23, 2024

The goals of an operational project are to reduce costs, get work done more efficiently or produce a higher-quality product. Operational project management deals with the planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling of resources to achieve project objectives. What Is Operational Project Management?

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It does this by overseeing the program’s operations and offering control much as a government does for a nation or corporate governance does for a corporation. This requires an organization to structure itself for program management and have the necessary tools to monitor and control the program effectively.

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MARCH 20, 2024

To help you once you break ground on your construction project, we’ll throw in some free construction project management templates on estimating, scheduling and budgeting. It will become evident if the project has been poorly scoped or has unclear specifications and quality requirements. What Is a Preconstruction Meeting?

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JANUARY 9, 2024

We’ll even throw in a few free construction resource management templates to help you get started. When selecting which materials to use, cost and quality are both going to play a significant role. Our free resource plan template for Excel helps you organize your tasks, resources and map them on a weekly and monthly calendar.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We’ll also throw in some free production planning templates. A production order is a document that’s generated by a manufacturing company’s control department and sent to its production department to authorize the specific number of a particular product that will be produced over a time period. What Is a Production Order?

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Whatever in the project impacts those constraints will result in the adjustment of one or two of the others to balance and maintain the quality of the project. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that gives you the tools to monitor and control your project scope, time and budget.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Then we’ll offer a few free IT incident management templates to help you control issues in your IT and how project management software can do what templates can’t. It can also reduce the quality of a service. Any violation of security policies and controls is a problem, whether it steals data or disrupts systems.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Then, to help you get started, we’ll have a few free financial management templates you can download. Project financial management is the process of controlling the financial aspect of a project, such as its cost, revenue and profit. Project financials center around controlling the following.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

We’ll also explain the benefits and share some free templates to help you out. These challenges can be faced and controlled, but only if an enterprise project manager is aware of them. Setting priorities and budgets across projects can be overwhelming and lead to mistakes, which can negatively impact quality and outcomes.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

You’re trying to get clarity on: The reasons for doing the project The benefits of doing the project Any risks that you can foresee now The scope and deliverables The costs and timelines Who should be involved and who should make decisions What quality looks like and how it will be achieved.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Controlling risk is one of the most important areas of project management. When you’re documenting risks, note where impacts to time, cost and quality are likely to occur. External Risk External risks are project risks that are beyond your control, such as the threat of new competitors or changes in economic conditions.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

While project management software is the gold standard, there are many free project management templates for Google that you can download to plan, manage and track your projects. Get these free project management templates for Google and take control of your project to deliver it successfully. Go to file and chick make a copy.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

You’ll be coming up with project proposals that will deliver high-quality projects. Work in Progress As the project moves into the execution, monitoring and controlling phase, you’ll need to keep track of the progress and performance of your team to make sure that the project is on schedule and staying within the budget.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

To help you manage your construction projects better, we’ll even add a few free templates. Understanding what goes into each of the five construction phases is the first step to controlling your project. ProjectManager allows you to access dozens of free project management templates for Excel and Word.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It’ll consist of only one contract, which will have details on the type and quality of the service that’s agreed on. It stipulates that a mutually agreed set of quality standards will be followed for the services provided. This section will define the scope of service and the expected performance and quality of the work.

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MARCH 31, 2023

Initiation: Here’s where you set out the project scope , the goals, the organization of the project, its business case, its constraints, who the stakeholders are, what the risks are, the project controls, the reporting framework, etc. This free project plan template will help you get started with your projects.

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APRIL 18, 2023

We’ll also highlight many free templates that can help if you’re involved in production or manufacturing. The goal of production planning, scheduling and controlling is to find the most efficient avenue to deliver the product or service you’re making to deliver it to the market or your customers. What Is Production?

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Project failure can be delivering a project after its deadline, over its budget or not meeting its quality expectations. Inaccessible Systems So, number five, inaccessible systems, again, that gets back to maybe software, spreadsheets, tools, templates are not online or critical resources on your projects can’t get those updated.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Project management software helps, too, but if you’re not ready to upgrade, we have some free change management templates that can help you manage change. If you’re looking for other free project management templates, you’re in the right place. There are downloadable templates for every phase in the project life cycle.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

OPAs include standard processes, procedures, tools, techniques, templates, and corporate knowledge bases or other resources used to manage projects or operations. Organizational Process Assets (OPAs) are the collective knowledge, experience, and information that an organization has accumulated over time. What is not an OPA?

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JANUARY 31, 2023

These IT project management templates are essential to get those jobs done properly. ProjectManager has dozens of free project management templates for Excel and Word that IT managers need when working on web development, software development, mobile app development, network configuration and so much more.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Although it’s impossible to predict the future, with these free risk management templates, you can better prepare for the unexpected and be more apt to keep your project on track. There are many project management templates that are designed to help you identify, respond to and track those risks. Learn more 3.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

That should be obvious from the name, but it also addresses the project scheduling, monitoring and controlling needed to bring the project deliverables. Quality Standards. You know the outputs, now it’s time to define the quality you expect from them. Monitor and Control the Project Execution Plan. Project Schedule.

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JULY 26, 2023

You can even download a free project initiation document template for Word to help you get started. It’s used primarily in PRINCE2 methodology, which is an acronym that stands for PRojects IN Controlled Environments. Project Controls To keep projects on schedule, managers must monitor their progress and performance.

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JUNE 20, 2023

That’s why most general contractors use construction project management software when managing their projects and controlling construction submittals. This also ensures the quality of the construction and makes certain that the final delivered project meets with the construction project owner’s expectations.

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MARCH 7, 2022

It’s going to impact the quality of your project. So, get the right team for the job, one that will work hard but not overextend themselves and put the project quality in jeopardy. You can do this many ways, including the use of agile tools that cut out the busy work and give you more control over every aspect of the project.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

These are usually a combination of things, from the delivery of the final product or service meeting the quality expectations set up the stakeholders to finishing the project on time and within budget. Free Stakeholder Management Templates To help with stakeholder management ProjectManager has free stakeholder management templates.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

The project life cycle is made up of five project stages: project initiation, project planning, project execution, monitoring & control and project closing. ProjectManager is online project management software that helps you control your project from initiation through closure. Get your free template 3.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

To better illustrate how a balanced scorecard works, we’ll also show an example of one and then share a free template to help you get started with yours. To improve their customer perspective, businesses or organizations can improve quality , enhance customer experience or adjust pricing. What Is a Balanced Scorecard?

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JANUARY 23, 2024

These metrics are project integration, time, scope, cost, quality, human resources, risk, communications, stakeholders and procurement. After assessing these areas, a maturity stage is assigned, from standardized, measured and controlled to continuously improved. This includes the project’s objectives , tasks, outputs and deadlines.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Controlling process manufacturing production is assisted by project management software. ProjectManager has Gantt charts to control process manufacturing. Quality checks are made after each step in the production cycle and machinery is tested between batches to make sure it’s performing as expected.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

In order to accomplish those goals and meet a tight deadline and an even tighter budget, you need these 10 free manufacturing Excel templates. ProjectManager has dozens of free templates to download. We curated our template page to select 10 of the essential manufacturing templates for Excel that all manufacturers can benefit from.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One of the questions I’m asked often when I’m mentoring project managers, is what is the difference between quality assurance and quality management? Quality management is the overarching approach, concept, principle, technique – whatever you want to call it. Identifying who will ensure quality responsibilities are met.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

There are three types; supportive, controlling and directive and each has varying degrees of involvement. However, all three can use PMO templates to support project programs and portfolios. We’ve collected 15 free templates that are suitable for a PMO. The Gantt chart template is broken up into two sections.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Production management has to control a variety of functions to deliver projects on time without overspending. It focuses on quality, capacity, resources and time. It involves phases that include planning, scheduling, control and maintenance in service of producing quality and quantity on time and within the budget.

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OCTOBER 11, 2020

Simply click on the New button to create a new timeline, or use one of the many templates to get you started. The great thing about Office Timeline is that it sits within your ‘normal’ PowerPoint software so all the standard PowerPoint controls and options still work. Tip: Save your edited timeline as a template.

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APRIL 11, 2023

Production control is the way that managers keep track of the work being done in the manufacturing facility. Let’s look into what production control is, what a production controller does and explore the process of production control. What Is Production Control? What Is Production Control? Learn more.

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