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Professional Services Industry Fundamentals

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These services are typically knowledge-based and delivered to businesses, organizations or individuals to help them achieve specific objectives or solve particular problems. Budgeting and Cost Tracking Professional services projects often involve a variety of costs, including labor, materials and overhead.

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10 Best Enterprise Project Management Software of 2025 (Free & Paid)

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Cost Management: Helps monitor and control project budgets, track expenses and forecast costs, ensuring projects stay on budget. Resource Management: Provides tools to manage human resources, budgets and other resources effectively across multiple projects. Lets review some of those features and what they do.

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Organizational Process Assets: Definitions, Examples & Templates

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Officially defined by the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI’s PMBOK) as “the plans, processes, policies, procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization,” operational process assets influence the management of a project. Let’s define each of these types.

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Elevating Katas™ as Systemic Levers for Organizational Agility

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Kata: Beyond Budgeting Organizations abandon rigid, annual budgeting cycles in favor of rolling forecasts, dynamic resource allocation, and more decentralized decision-making. Read more on Beyond Budgeting. Browse our Knowledge Base to learn more. Read more about DoD in LeSS.

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Good Project Manager vs Bad Project Manager

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A Bad Project Manager does not understand domain areas , and they do not take the initiative to build up their knowledge base. They understand the semantics of creating a win-win situation whether when securing a budget or a resource for a project. They constantly make excuses when issues arise on their projects. Communication.

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Enterprise Environmental Factors in Project Management

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Then you can track the progress in real time to ensure the project is delivered on time and within budget. Therefore, it’s as important to the success of the project as staying on schedule, keeping to your budget and scope as well as delivering on quality expectations. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

However, when existing staff don’t have the right knowledge and skills to successfully complete all the delegated tasks they end up feeling discouraged. The team loses their critical knowledge base which inevitably leads to a huge loss of resources and ultimately, a failure. The same goes for human resources.

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