ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That’s why planning out your project budget is so important: it’s the lifeblood of the project. But first, we need to define what a project budget is. What Is a Project Budget? A project budget is the total projected costs needed to complete a project over a defined period of time. Why You Need a Project Budget.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2021

How do you manage to communicate about your project with virtually no marketing budget? We don’t all have big budgets to produce banners, T-shirts and mugs with logos on to share the messages about our projects. If you are still here, then you don’t have a big budget for project communications. Oh, good for you.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Did you know that 56% of your project budget might be at risk due to poor communications? Get the project communications plan template I use to plan my project communications If you want to try something different, read this case study on using video for project communications. who support it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. Watch the video to listen (about 30 minutes). If you prefer to read, there are closed captions in the video or there’s also a transcript underneath the video.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Advanced Gantt Chart Features ProjectManager’s Gantt chart view allows project managers to make project schedules, allocate resources such as people and materials, track costs and monitor the project timeline, budget and progress with real-time dashboards.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

A project manager’s primary responsibility is to complete the project’s objectives with the resources provided within the agreed budget and schedule. Video (recorded or live) and more. Juggling financial constraints can help the organization and show that you understand the importance of good budget management.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 9, 2024

It can also give teams the tools they need to execute change and managers visibility into that process to ensure it meets deadlines and budgets. There are weekly blogs, tutorial videos, guides, eBooks, and, of course, free templates. Related Change Management Content Change management is a large subject.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 17, 2024

Benefits of Using a Stakeholder Register Successful projects are delivered on time, within budget and maintaining quality expectations. We publish weekly blogs, tutorial videos, ebooks, guides, free templates and more. However, one aspect of a successful project that’s often overlooked is stakeholders.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

If you look at your Facebook feed right now, how many posts are videos? Facebook has been pushing video because it keeps people on their platform longer, and this won’t stop any time soon. When it comes to Facebook ads, video views are already a cheap way to reach an audience. Probably most of them, am I correct?

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2024

Track Costs and Progress in Real Time It’s important to monitor the progress and costs to make sure that change is implemented on schedule, without going over budget. We publish weekly blogs, ebooks, guides, tutorial videos and free templates. Here are some of the recent pieces on change management. What Is Change Management?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2021

In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. Watch the video to listen (about 30 minutes). If you prefer to read, there are closed captions in the video or there’s also a transcript underneath the video.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 9, 2025

Approve the Budget Check that youve got the money approved! Watch this video with Jennifer Bridges to learn more about essential project kickoff documents. Documenting it helps everyone see what you are planning to do. And any other resources that will be required.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 1, 2021

In this article, I’ll share a project management case study: a time when we used creative solutions for project comms and got creative with video. Creating A Video. So we made a video what we would have told them face to face. We included short video interviews with key stakeholders in each area. The Results.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 24, 2022

Project budgeting: A program manager must keep track of several project budgets. Pro tip: Though not a program manager, the project manager has a lot to do with what’s happening on the program, such as delivering the project on time and within the allotted budget. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains the difference in this video.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

When a project or product manager is in the planning stage, theyre scheduling tasks to meet a schedule and not exceed the budget. Constraints and Limitations: Identifies any restrictions such as budget, time, technology or resource constraints that could impact the deliverables development and implementation.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 3, 2024

Monitor and Report on Progress, Cost and More As change is implemented or resolved, those actions must be monitored to ensure that they’re not delaying the project or causing excess costs that the budget can’t contain. We publish blogs weekly, ebooks, guides, tutorial videos and, of course, free templates.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 27, 2023

But before we dive into that, let’s review seven common risks that could affect your project budget and schedule. These extra costs can’t be covered with the initial project budget which is a critical resource management issue that might lead to project failure, as there are no resources to complete the project.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Being able to manage and track expenses is what keeps the project within a budget. The following tutorial video addresses costs, specifically project expenses. That’s the only way to control your expenses and in so doing stay on budget. Identify Budget Items. Create a Budget. In Review: How to Track Expenses.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2020

Video Conferencing. Although it wouldn’t hurt to allocate some time and money in the budget for in-person summits. Watch a Training Video on Managing Remote Teams. While nothing replaces face-to-face dialogue, Jennifer offered these three ways to resolve the inherent problems of remote teams: Video conferencing with whiteboard.

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NimbleWork

JANUARY 29, 2025

Video production projects encompass a series of intricate processes, from conceptualization to final delivery. Effective project management is indispensable in aligning creative goals with logistical realities, ensuring high-quality results, timely delivery, and adherence to budgets. Efficient resource allocation and budget control.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Plus we’ve added handy links to help you dive deeper into different topics with videos, articles and even our round-up of all resources so you can put these important terms into practice with your projects. Devin Deen explains how to use Activity on the Arrow diagramming to chart the critical path in this video.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The WPS course is a self-paced video training class is a partnership between PMI and Tom Wujeck. There are downloadable PDF resources and a workbook that goes alongside the video. The videos are very polished. It is, but the videos are quite short. The embedded videos do not let you manage speed controls.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 11, 2023

Are you sick and tired of wasting your precious Agile "Transformation" budget? Watch this video to learn 9 questions you can ask potential Agile "Transformation" partners so you stop wasting your "Transformation" budget. . What questions could you explore as you send out RFP's, RFQ's, interview partners and write SOW's?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2023

They will need to allocate resources across a wide range of projects in order to deliver all within their allotted schedule and budget while meeting quality standards. Video: What Do Project Portfolio Managers Do? That’s the question that Jennifer Bridges, PMP, asks and answers in this short project management tutorial video.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Video: Project Management Qualifications Overview Learn about the top-10 project management qualifications in this tutorial video featuring Jennifer Bridges, PMP. Project Budgeting The project budget is what the project will cost to complete. Thanks for watching!

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

Having a scope baseline helps track your project scope and avoid scope creep, which is adding more activities without adjusting the schedule or budget to compensate. Project Budget The project budget is the estimated costs of the project.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

This gradual expansion of a project’s scope beyond the original agreement is obviously going to negatively impact the budget and schedule so it’s something to always be aware of and, if there are changes, manage them to avoid as much negative impact as possible. Estimating Costs Accurately to Create a Project Budget Projects cost money.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Cost management is the process by which one plans and manages the budget of a business or project. In the case of a project, it helps the project manager estimate what the project will cost and set in place controls by which they can reduce the chance of the project going over budget. Cost Management Overview. They are outlined below.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

The importance of a project strategy is simple: it helps deliver projects on time, within budget and aligned with larger strategic goals. Project Manager: This is a professional responsible for leading the project, making its schedule and budget as well as leading and managing the project team. That’s the project scope.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Budget: This is an estimate of everything in your plan and what it will cost to complete the project over the scheduled time allotted. ProjectManager.com’s Gantt chart can help make plans, schedules and budgets. Watch Our Business Case Training Video. Project Plan: It’s time to create the project plan.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Production: The production is going to involve creating contracts as you work on creating an audio-visual recording of the proceedings, as well as a sound and video broadcast during the event. If you held similar events, use and adjust an old budget for a baseline. This will again involve contracts, marketing and logistics. Promotions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

I’ve also included some low cost/high value resources that I find myself recommending frequently to people who are on tight budgets. Here are some free and low cost/high value project management training resources available online that I find myself recommending frequently to people who are on tight budgets.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 27, 2023

There are complicated projects and the contractors use the schedule of values to help stay on budget and not eat into their profit margin. Contractor profits are dependent on keeping to the budget, which is as accurate a forecast of project cost as they can estimate. Then there’s financial planning and cash flow management.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 20, 2024

For construction companies, labor tracking helps to keep projects within the budget, saving the general contractor’s profit margin by identifying potential cost overruns. This helps with budgeting and financial planning. Helps With the Budget Tracking Process Labor costs can also help track the budget.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Finally, there’s the budget report. If the cost of the project is skyrocketing or if your stakeholders’ expectations will lead to an inflated budget, the dollars and cents argument is one that carries great influence. We have many reports that can be filtered to show just the information you want, including status, variance and budget.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

They are going to want to know how the project is progressing and whether it’s scheduled to deliver on time and within its budget. These are usually a combination of things, from the delivery of the final product or service meeting the quality expectations set up the stakeholders to finishing the project on time and within budget.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Track task status, budget and your project progress. The dashboard offers views of cost, budget, time, health, workload, progress, risk, issues and changes, plus so much more, in the project. For more information on our real-time project dashboards, watch the video below: What Other Templates Can Complement My Dashboard?

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