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How to Budget with a Variable Income When You’re Self Employed

ProjectManager.com

As a business owner or someone who considers themselves a freelancer or contract worker, it can be difficult to properly budget and pay your bills when your income varies every month. Here are some of the best strategies for properly budgeting if you are self employed and have a variable income. Related: Free Project Budget Template.

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Book Review: The Power of Project Leadership

LiquidPlanner

I closed her exceptional book completely inspired and itching to get a copy in the hands of both LiquidPlanner employees and our customers. In Susanne’s book, 2018 PMI research shows that only 52% of projects finish on time, only 69% meet their business objectives, and, for every $1 billion spent, organizations are losing $97 million.

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Strategic Project Portfolio Management [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It took me a while to get my hands on Simon Moore’s book, Strategic Project Portfolio Management *, but I’m rather glad I did. I read a lot, and I notice fonts, layout, box copy, but in this book, most of all the lovely tables. Praising a book because it is pretty is probably shallow, but it does matter for the reader experience.

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7 Factors of Good Governance

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A good governance model requires every project to have a project sponsor and while you read about sponsorship all the time on blogs like these in reality I still come across people who don’t know who their sponsor is. I’ve rounded up a list of my recommended project governance books. You have a sponsor. Further reading.

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Planning a Budget for a Proposal in 5 Easy Steps (+ Example)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We start with 5 steps for how to put a proposal budget together and then Edoardo shares a worked (fictional) example to show you what the budget would look like once it is completed. A proposal budget is similar to a project budget, but with a very different goal. So how does this budget information look in your proposal?

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What Is Resource Loading and Why Does It Matter in Project Management?

ProjectManager.com

This is one way that projects go off track, miss a deadline or spend beyond the project budget. Each worker is assigned a task or a percentage of the project until they’re 100 percent booked. Resource leveling is involved with resources, too, but also time, as in the start and end dates of projects and budgets.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Learn more One value of using this method is that it’s easier to identify bottlenecks and other issues that could delay the completion of tasks and address them before they affect your project budget or schedule. Scrum allows you to create flexible project plans that can be adjusted at any point without impacting your project or budget.

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