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Project Budget Template for Excel

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A project budget contains the financial details of your project, including the estimates of all the money you need to layout to lead a successful project, from resources to materials. Monitor project expenses with this Excel budget template. The budget is the life’s blood of your project, so you need to monitor it accurately.

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Project Risk Management: How-to guide (with tips)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Risk management is a staple skill of project managers. As the project environments we work in get more and more complex, with greater levels of uncertainty and more transformative, disruptive projects, being able to deal with risk remains top of the list of desirable skills for managers in all areas of business.

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7 Easy Steps I Use To Close A Project Effectively (Steal my checklist!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

But there’s another area that is arguably as important, if not more so than those: how to close a project. I've closed out lots of projects in my 20+ years career as a project manager. One project in particular was difficult to close and sticks in my mind as there was no one to hand it over to, so I sat with it for ages.

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How to Manage Project Environment from Initiation to Close

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Managing a project is difficult. You have a deadlines to meet and budgets to keep. You need to be aware of the project environment and prepare for its influence on your project throughout the project management life cycle. A project environment is all the internal and external forces that exert on your project management.

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Capital Budgeting: Definitions, Steps & Techniques

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Figuring out what to spend its capital on, such as capital spending on long-term assets, is part of capital budgeting. First, we need to define capital budgeting, what a capital budget is and why it’s important. Then we can go through the capital budgeting techniques and the steps to a capital budgeting process.

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How to Actually Close a Project

Project Risk Coach

If you are like most project managers, you are managing several projects. However, I encourage you to actually close each project before moving to the next one. How much variance was there from the schedule and budget? If you have a resource manager, work with the manager to ensure a smooth reassignment of the resources.

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What to do when your project closes early: A guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Closing down a project early is very different to carrying out a controlled close when a project has reached its natural conclusion and delivered everything that stakeholders were expecting. When a project is unexpectedly closed early, it can be difficult to know what steps to take next. Why do projects close early?

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