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How to Manage Project Environment from Initiation to Close

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A project has five phases: initiation, planning, execution, monitor and control and close. Monitoring and controlling: These two activities take place at the same time as the project execution. This is followed by a review of the project, documenting all lessons learned and closing all project records.

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Post-Construction Phase: How to Close a Construction Project

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Related: 11 Free Excel Construction Templates Post-Construction Documents Some consider the post-construction phase the most important of a building’s life cycle because it involves a close working relationship with the general contractor and the building owner. To manage that transition are many post-construction documents.

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Project Monitoring and Control: Tools & Steps

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All are important, especially project monitoring. Project monitoring and control is how a project manager ensures the plan they’re implementing with the project team goes off without a hitch. Project controlling involves a lot of steps to thoroughly monitor the project schedule, resources and costs.

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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

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Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? you can use to help you close those gaps, yet it isn’t easy. Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. And you’re not alone in this challenge.

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The 10 Project Management Knowledge Areas (PMBOK)

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Project management knowledge areas coincide with the process groups, which are project initiation, project planning , project execution, monitoring and controlling, and project closing. This process is monitored, analyzed and reported on to identify and control any changes or problems that might occur. Project Cost Management.

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Project Management Processes & Phases

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In project management there are five phases: initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing. Throughout these project phases there is a need to constantly monitor and report, which is where project management tools come in. Monitor and Control. Scope: Monitor scope and control changes.

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Work in Progress (WIP) Report in Construction (Template Included)

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General contractors strive to maintain each job’s profit margin, so it makes sense that the construction project will be monitored closely to ensure it’s progressing as planned. A WIP report, an abbreviation of a work-in-progress report, is the tool general contractors use to monitor costs.