Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 29, 2021

In this article we’ll look at common project risks so you can start filling up your risk log and making the right plans. The PMI definition of risk is: “an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has a positive or negative effect on a project’s objectives.”. Here is a list of common project cost risks.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 1, 2019

Then on the project side, Jennifer recalled one in which the market was doing poorly. That resulted in costs going up for the work. Related: The Basics of Project Cost Management. It impacted the scope of the project. Learn how to keep your business or project running in the event of a disaster.

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Project Cost Management often puts people off. But there’s little your project sponsor, your client, or their Finance Director care about more than your budget and how closely you can stick to it. Project cost over-runs are common. The governance considerations for project cost management.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

While scrum has been scaled to apply to bigger projects and organizations, its roots are in agile software development and has come to work seamlessly in that smaller, nimble environment. That hasn’t stopped practitioners from using scrum in varying industries, from retail logistics to event planning.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Contingency can be defined as additional resources put aside to address potential risk and uncertainty in a project. Only 62% of projects complete within their original budget, according to PMI’s 2021 figures. Calculating Anticipated Final Cost and confidence range. Why is contingency important? What is a contingency plan?

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Project Bliss

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Project assumptions are those things you assume to be true for your project to be successful. They’re called assumptions because you assume that for your project to move forward successfully as planned, these things will be in place. They’re events or situations considered to be true without absolute proof in the moment.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

A PMO, or Project Management Office, is a centralized organizational structure that standardizes project management practices, processes, and governance to ensure projects are executed efficiently and align with strategic business goals. What is a PMO? APIs to customize workflows and enhance functionality.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

A PMO, or Project Management Office, is a centralized organizational structure that standardizes project management practices, processes, and governance to ensure projects are executed efficiently and align with strategic business goals. What is a PMO? APIs to customize workflows and enhance functionality.

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MPUG

MARCH 30, 2020

PMI describes the Project Management Office (PMO) as a strategic driver for organizational excellence. The PMO seeks to enhance the practices of execution management, organizational governance, and strategic change leadership. Beginning a PMO is not an overnight event. Beginning a PMO.

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MPUG

JULY 30, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Rich Murphy’s showcase session, Triskell Software for Enterprise Governance, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Triskell Software for Enterprise Governance.

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MPUG

JULY 30, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Rich Murphy’s showcase session, Triskell Software for Enterprise Governance, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG vendor showcase session, Triskell Software for Enterprise Governance.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. Large, complex projects will require more highly structured processes than smaller ones. For example, the projects must be delivered by a certain date. Risks are future events with a likelihood of occurrence and potential impact.

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. Large, complex projects will require more highly structured processes than smaller ones. For example, the projects must be delivered by X date. Risks are future events with a likelihood of occurrence and potential impact.

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Susanne Madsen

JUNE 18, 2018

The project manager is the central point of coordination and communication , one minute focusing on detailed tasks, the next liaising with the customer and providing inspiration and a big picture vision for the team to follow. He must have attention to detail and also have the ability to lead and focus the team.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Continuous Improvement The ongoing effort to improve a project process, product, or service to achieve better results. Cost Estimation The process of estimating project costs is done by leveraging historical data, expert judgment, or quantitative models. Also known as continuous process improvement.

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Velociteach

APRIL 11, 2023

At this point, the budget estimate may only be +50%/-30% of the final project costs. Assumptions and Constraints Assumptions and constraints are identified and documented throughout the project. If this event occurs, then this is the impact. Risks can be included in the charter and added to the project’s risk register.

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Planio

MARCH 11, 2024

Communication blockers To finish: how to handle risks the right way Turn uncertainty into success The importance of risk management in project management Risk management is the process of identifying, analyzing, and managing events that affect, or could affect, your project.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Team building and social events – Erm, no! Working as a developer at Data Sciences Ltd in the UK I wrote a program to manage our work tasks on a government project. My project manager saw it one day and two interesting things happened.   One aims to avoid costs, the other aims to generate new value.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

MAY 28, 2020

The recent UK Government’s enquiry into the management of major projects was cut short by world events, but the interim report and oral evidence make for interesting reading. [1] And of course, for our projects and our organisations, we don’t have Governments to bail us out.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

You will confidently align projects with organizational objectives, optimize resource utilization, and foster stakeholder engagement to deliver tangible value at every stage of the project lifecycle. Organizations can optimize project performance and outcomes by integrating these functions into a cohesive framework.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For example, if a new project costs $500,000, but is projected to make $1,000,000 in additional revenue per year, that is a good economic return. Project schedule and action plan: Show how you’ll take the initiative forward, including when you predict key events or milestones will be achieved.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Acquisition Process: The process for acquiring the resources and people needed to complete a project. Events and milestones are represented as nodes. As Late as Possible (ALAP): In project management terms, ALAP is any activity that should be started as late as possible as long as it doesn't delay any of its successor activities.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In their session, Kalpesh and Carolyn detailed how Radial’s PMO deployed Wrike to over 600 users within four months and it now serves as the system of record for the entire project life cycle. Whether you were there in real time and want to rewatch something or you couldn’t make the live event, head here for on-demand access to Collaborate.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. All project work has uncertainty. Uncertainty comes from the lack of precision and accuracy about the possible values of a measurement of a project attribute.

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MPUG

JUNE 19, 2023

It is a formal way to introduce changes to the project’s baseline plans and agreements. Change orders are typically used when there is a need to add, remove, or revise project requirements, deliverables, or constraints. Several events or circumstances can lead to the need for a change order in a project.

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Epicflow Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

At the same time, it’s not imperative to write all of these plans – be guided by the needs of a project. . A project plan is based on a project charter, historical data and lessons learned, templates, and industry (or government) standards. . Creating a project management plan is important because: .

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Manage project tasks with intuitive to-do lists Automatically schedule events* and client check-ins Collaborate through message boards and group chat* Premium support ensures teams can stay working 24/7*. * Is Zoho Projects right for you? If you already use other Zoho tools, Zoho Projects is a no brainer. From $11.95

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

Managing Cost, Schedule, & Technical Performance Risk Is The Basis Of Good Project Management. Risk management is essential to the success of any significant project. Certain information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes are often unknown until the project is underway.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

A Black Swan is a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations. Taleb speaks in his two books Fooled by Randomness and Black Swans mostly about financial markets, global political events like 9/11. All is good so far until he mentions these concepts are applicable to the management of projects.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

We can estimate the total cost, total duration, and the probability that all the Features will be delivered on the program we are working for the US Government. Or ANY software project for that matter. The estimated completion cost for this program is $357,000,000 with an accuracy of $200,000 and a precision of $300,000.

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

In this way, the construction of the pyramids was a complex project that required careful management in order to be successful. Project Management as a Profession As a Profession , it has its roots in the 1950s and 1960s when the U.S. government began using it to manage complex defense projects. TechTarget.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

A Black Swan is a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations. Taleb speaks in his two books Fooled by Randomness and Black Swans mostly about financial markets, global political events like 9/11. All is good so far until he mentions these concepts are applicable to the management of projects.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. I mentioned the five star because I saw this event is up on PMI. Jeff is also a trainer with over 20,000 hours of classroom experience spanning 20 years.

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Velociteach

MARCH 4, 2024

And the thing I like about Bent is that he spent, well, 20-something years gathering a lot of data about projects and their performance. And one of the interesting takeaways from his recent book is that four out of five projects cost more than expected and deliver less benefits than we had hoped. It’s Implement.dk/benefits.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Governance (#Governance). Six Business System Rule - defines the assessment of the integrated business systems for Federal procurement and their integrity in providing information to the Government contracting office. . Project Performance Management.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Many industries and organizations use SOPs — including manufacturing, healthcare, and government. Here’s an example from Fio of Contentfolks (click to expand): Source She planned an online event at Wildbit using a Miro board with a rectangular block for each week leading up to the event (the five green blocks you see below).

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

You’re the head of operations for a top government weapons organization. But there are problems around every corner: insufficient project requirements, failure from leadership to recognize risk, managers setting poor collaboration processes, aggressive competition targeting you, and so much more. X projects per year.

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