Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

I'm the author of several project management books and I've been leading business and tech projects for over 20 years. And I guide you through understanding the fundamental principles and best practices for your project's finances - this is the session not to miss as so often job ads require budget confidence in a role!

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 16, 2024

Cost management: Costs can be monitored and controlled across construction features, such as timesheets , dashboards and budget baselines. It provides real-time insights for better risk management and keeping projects on schedule and within budget. They help managers and keep stakeholders updated on progress. 5 Capterra review: 4.6/5

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 13, 2020

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. Example of Proposal Budget.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Monitoring and controlling the complete set of projects in the portfolio , with a special focus on resourcing across the business and managing the budgets. Resources for Learning More Here are some books about portfolio management that I can recommend. This is the guide that I would start with, if I were you.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 2, 2024

Check out these ways to celebrate success , many of which don't need any formal budget. In his book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Really Motivates Us, Daniel Pink talks about a study conducted at Cornell University. Circulate nice emails of praise from management or customers. That's stifling for your culture of innovation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The most successful students also include reading a range of PMI-ACP books in their exam prep, as well as a training course, just as that little bit of extra comfort. It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. Alternatively, choose books that fill in your gaps.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 3, 2020

Sarah Coleman is co-author of Project Leadership, a book in its third edition exploring how leadership and project management intertwine. How is that reflected in your book? We all know that when budgets are under pressure, training and development budgets are seen as discretionary and “nice to have” so are among the first to be cut.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 21, 2021

In this extract from their new book, Jahn Karsybaev and Fred Obiero share the characteristics and behaviors of successful and unsuccessful project leaders. They understand the semantics of creating a win-win situation whether when securing a budget or a resource for a project. What makes a bad project manager? — Leadership.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A couple of times people have said to me that sharing the project budget with their team members is Not A Good Idea. I think it is essential to be transparent about the budget, how it was created and how you, as a team, are doing with spending it. Share your budget figures with people outside the immediate project team.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 24, 2020

6: Review the budget. Is the budget approved? Action if there is no budget plan or information: Back to the PMO or your Finance team. You can focus your energy on getting a decent plan, or setting up the governance structure, or dealing with the budget – whatever you think is the most important part to get right, right now.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Successful CEOs Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy define execution in their book Executive: The Discipline of Getting Things Done : “Execution is a specific set of behaviors and techniques that companies need to master in order to have a competitive advantage. Make Changes. This leads to the changes that are necessary for every project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Richard Newton, in his book, The Project Management Book , sets out another 4 benefits of stakeholder management. Free Resources One of my favourite project management books “Proactive stakeholders effectively provide an extended team of additional resources (for free!) Need some help with the project budget?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

It also highlights constraints like budget limitations, regulatory restrictions or workforce capacity. It compares what the budget for the project will be against the benefits that it will deliver. Even our secure timesheets help by tracking labor costs to help keep to the budget.

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Technical Review Software Review Construction Infrastructure 219

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Unfortunately I’m not able to say, “I’m struggling with Excel right now, I really don’t have these budgeting skills, so we won’t bother to have a budget tracker on this project.” Budget management is definitely a skill to develop because it is useful in future roles too – say, if you move into a role with a P&L responsibility.

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The Lazy Project Manager

DECEMBER 12, 2024

[Extract From: The Lazy Winning Project Manager: Embracing Project and Personal Productivity in an AI Empowered World by Peter Taylor] Uniform In my well-known keynote of productive laziness, based on my first book, I start by declaring that we have a problem in project management. Dont hold back just go for it!

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Artificial Inteligence Finance Manufacturing Construction 195

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 17, 2024

Block out half a day a month Book a meeting with yourself for half a day a month and call it ‘process review’. Book time to write reports Book a recurring meeting to schedule the time in your diary for reporting. Book team meetings for the rest of the year Yep, get them in the diary now. Here are some tips.

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Technical Review Energy Governance Government 384

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

As long as you know where you want to get to overall, you can broadly make sure that you achieve that with the resources and budget that you have. They have to balance the resources, budget and time to achieve the goal and ensure each project manager has what they need to complete their part of the program.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 8, 2024

You might have studied project budgeting as part of a training course. Maybe you’ve been handed a project and been asked to set up the budget tracker for it, or you know that task is coming your way soon. Want to learn more about project budgeting? Join my new workshop. Buy now Prefer to pay in UK Sterling? I don’t know!

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It became a part of agile when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” in 2001. This organization produces a book called the “project management body of knowledge” or PMBOK. First introduced in 1997, in the book “Critical Path” by Eliyahu M.

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Technical Review Prince2 Lean Manufacturing 505

ProjectManager.com

JULY 12, 2022

Preconstruction is important but so is having the right tools to create a schedule, assemble a team and develop a budget. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts help you estimate the schedule and budget for construction projects. This estimate will help in the creation of a final budget for the construction project. Project Budget.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

Book quality checks Now you know what project quality measures you are trying to hit, book some quality checks in. Also, if you have internal auditors or a Quality Assurance function, or someone in the PMO who can do an informal (or formal) project review, book that in as well. The options are: Once (i.e.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 8, 2022

Fixed date projects only get a passing mention in the Managing Successful Projects book , and you’d have to look really hard to find a mention of managing time constraints in the Directing Successful Projects book. There isn’t. PRINCE2® advises that the fixed date time constraint is managed as a planning risk.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2022

You’ll probably end up with a number of different types of reports going to different audiences: project reports, budget reports, briefings to senior managers, and others that you do on an ad hoc basis. I’ve rounded up a list of my recommended project governance books. We recommend: Project Status Report Template.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 4, 2022

To help guide you, look at the project budget, design, risks, schedule and owner’s expertise. One of the more important parts of the project to settle on is the construction budget , so you’ll want to establish this as quickly as possible. Naturally, software costs will be part of the budget. Next, is design.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 29, 2020

In a startup environment, budgets are often tight and the typical processes that keep companies running are often missing. Most how-to books will tell you that in order for a startup to succeed, it takes a combination of hard work, good employees and ample funding. Workload: see which employees and teams are over or under worked.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 26, 2024

Shut down the cost code for your project budget or tell Finance that nothing more will be charged to the project. State the budget and what you actually spent. This is not the place to whine about why you are three months late or massively over budget. Book a celebration for the team! Don't let that happen to you.

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Closing Software Review Prince2 Budget 397

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It’s a great tool for determining the costs of your project because, though it’s not 100 percent accurate, it’s statistically on target and better than basing the budget on your gut. Whatever estimate you come up with after doing a rough order of magnitude, you’ll need to track those costs as they accrue to keep to your budget.

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Estimate Software Review Budget Project Cost 435

Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Project management standards such as the PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition state that contingency reserves, which are established to offset the cost or schedule impacts of realized identified risks, are considered part of the project budget and cost baseline.

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Risk Management PMI Construction Budget 328

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2020

Richard Newton, in his book, The Project Management Book, sets out another 4 benefits of stakeholder management. One of my favourite project management books. Need some help with the project budget? Read my full review of Richard Newton’s book. Here they are. Free Resources.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 10, 2021

Anna recommended that achievements are quantified e.g. delivering ahead of schedule or within budget. John Ayers shared a tip from his upcoming book: if you want to be successful as a project manager you have to manage risk well, especially sub-contract risk. . Make this clear, because anyone can say they’ve led a project.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Like an opening sentence in a book that keeps you reading, the project summary must capture your attention and pull you through the project proposal. This is where you’ll start to define the project’s goals, the schedule of tasks that must be executed to deliver the project, an estimation of its budget, etc.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

You can read more about this attempt at thanking people on a budget here and find out why it didn’t work out so well. You might be working on a project with a vendor who still has got a budget for giveaways. Why not thank you team for a job well done by buying them a book? Then we made personalized gift vouchers.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It is rarely impossible to deliver on time, given the right amount of resources, an unlimited budget and a tightly controlled project scope, but projects seldom meet these criteria. Meri Williams’ book, The Principles of Project Management, is another one I enjoyed. Crash the project. Renegotiate the fixed date.

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Telecoms 2010 Estimate Prince2 482

Hub Planner

JANUARY 8, 2025

A small and simple update: you can now schedule allocations and set budgets in days. Whether you’re booking time for a team member or managing a projects financials, adding days to the mix brings an extra layer of precision and flexibility. Instead of estimating hours, you can now book them for 5 days, from Monday through Friday.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 20, 2022

Spending some time with your team members overseas is the best way to understand how they work, but desk research before you go (or if budget constraints mean you can’t go) will be beneficial. With multi-currency budgets, different tax regimes, exchange rates and more to handle, the project financial management becomes a headache.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2018

The five phases of a project constitute the project management life cycle , which coincidentally is the title of a book by ProjectManager.com CEO Jason Westland. If the project is approved, then the next step is to assemble a project team and to start planning how to manage the project so it can achieve its goals within budget and on time.

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