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Project Management for Professional Services Providers

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Any business that has a project that has a start and end date, which produces a deliverable, benefits from project management. That includes project management for professional services. Before explaining why, first we’ll define project management, professional services and the relationship between the two.

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Variation Order in Construction: A Quick Guide

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A variation order is also instrumental in managing change. This is especially important in construction, where the project often undergoes many changes. Well define the term and explain when to use one and who requests and approves it. They cover all aspects of managing a project across multiple industries.

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The Construction Process Explained Step-by-Step

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These construction process steps make overwhelming projects possible. Lets define those construction process stages and explain how to manage them. The construction process is the entire sequence of activities involved in creating a built structure, such as a building, bridge, road or infrastructure project.

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Have You Left Anything Out of Your Project Management Plan?

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Have you left anything out of your project management plan? Check out this checklist to help you identify the baselines and plans that will be most helpful to each of your projects. As I define a project management plan, I strive for clarity, brevity, and simplicity. Define your project plan accordingly.

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12 Free Project Planning Templates for Excel and Word

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You get to address the planning basics, such as defining your project scope, identifying milestones and breaking the project down into manageable phases and tasks. Then you can create a project schedule, including task dependencies, project assumptions and constraints.

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The 10 Project Management Knowledge Areas (PMBOK)

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So, that includes plan scope management, which is part of the project management plan. You’ll also need to define scope in a scope statement. This is anything from a sentence to a bulleted list that is comprehensive to reduce major project risks. Related: Time Management Strategies & Tools.

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How to Create a Project Initiation Document (Template Included)

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Before you can start a project — even before you can plan it — you first need to define the project in detail. This allows the project manager to get buy-in from the project’s key stakeholders and ensure all the research has been done to move into the planning phase without any hiccups.