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3 steps to preparing project budget

How to Prepare a Project Budget in Three Generic Steps

Preparing a budget sheet for a proposed project is a critical activity that helps ensure whether the project is provided with all necessary funds. It aims to confirm direct and indirect project costs are fully covered by the budget, with no cost overruns and underestimates. Let’s find out how to prepare a project budget in three generic steps.

How to Write a Project Description: Key Criteria and Steps

How to Write a Project Description: Key Criteria and Steps

Writing a project description document is a general task of the project manager or his/her deputy who is supposed to identify the idea, goals, background, approach, outcomes and other data in a correct and comprehensive manner. The document should define the project as a worthwhile and economically effective and reasonable endeavor to convince the sponsor of the need to make the necessary investments. In this publication I’m going to talk about Project Description, what criteria to use to write this document efficiently, and what steps to take to develop the document content

business support planning: how to

How to Keep Your Business Viable and Profitable

Effective business support planning becomes one of the most critical activities within successful small business maintenance and development. By developing a complete business support plan, company owners, managers and executives get more chances to make their businesses viable, stable and profitable. A viable business support plan gives a clear explanation on how each of the business activities maintained by a company can fit together to produce profits. In this article we will talk about the importance of business support planning, review the definition of a business support plan and also highlight the key services included in the plan.

quality management planning

How to Create a Quality Plan Template in Four Steps

Regardless of your project’s type, size and scope, it is critical to your success to create a high-performance quality plan template that includes all the tasks and activities required for setting up quality targets, assuring expected performance levels, controlling changes occurring in the project, and implementing the quality management process. Planning for project quality in advance allows you to understand possible problems and investigate root causes of those problems.

programme risk and opportunities

How to Respond to Programme Threats and Opportunities

rogramme risk management is a series of processes and activities targeted to identifying, evaluating, responding to, and controlling any threats and opportunities that surround a programme (within a project or business process). Managing programme risks is a great way to make a programme feasible and pave the way for good strategic, operational, project and programme management. Responding to programme threats and opportunities is an integral part of the programme risk management process. In this article we will talk about several ways for responding to programme risks and taking opportunities for improvement project and programme management. Let’s start with responses to programme threats and then describe responses to programme opportunities.