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Construction Budget: A Quick Guide (with Examples)

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Creating a construction budget, therefore, is one of the most important pieces when developing a construction plan. How do you create a construction budget, anticipate the costs for a project and track them to make sure you’re not overspending? Let’s take a look at what goes into making a construction budget.

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How Poor Risk Management Is Hurting Your Program

Project Risk Coach

Poor risk management is costly. Let's look at the cost of poor risk management through the example of Tom Whitley. Although Tom missed a few deadlines, he implemented most of his projects, though small, on time and under budget in his first year. The senior management team praised Tom for the early action.

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15 Must-Have Business Report Templates

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Businesses need to monitor work to make sure that they’re meeting milestones. It gives managers an instant status report to see if the project is progressing as planned, if costs are aligned with the budget and other metrics to help stay on track. SWOT Analysis Template SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

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Real-life tips for managing Red projects and getting back to Green

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Maybe your estimates were poor or you forgot to add something into scope that you really should have worked out in advance. If you’re running over budget, you need approval to increase your budget. For example, bring in a contractor to speed up developing an IT system. It happens.

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What Is a Post-Implementation Review in Project Management?

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How do you lead a post-mortem on your project to learn how to repeat the good stuff and lose the bad stuff? Each project team can develop its post-implementation review process to make it as detailed as needed, but here are some general post-implementation review steps that can be applied to any project.

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10 Free Goal-Setting and Tracking Templates for Excel and Word

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Now, those goals must be communicated to the team responsible for executing the individual tasks that will lead to achieving those goals. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has robust roadmaps that can be shared with teams. This will guide the development of a more impactful strategic plan.

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Cost of Quality (COQ): A Quick Guide

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But we’ll also discuss the cost of good quality vs. the cost of poor quality and show you how to measure COQ. It’s also not just forecasting the impact of poor quality but the expense of audits and maintenance that comes with delivering a quality product or service. What Is Cost of Quality (COQ)?