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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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When to Use It: The Waterfall approach is great for manufacturing and construction projects , which are highly structured, and when it’s too expensive to pivot or change anything after the fact. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). When to Use It: CPM works better with smaller or mid-sized projects. Lean Methodology.

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6 Top Project Management Books for Engineers and Manufacturers

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To compile this list, we dug through Amazon listings, forums, blogs, and review websites to identify the best project management books specifically for those in the manufacturing and engineering industries. Critical Chain by Dr. Eliyahu M. The LiquidPlanner Blog. Who said business books have to be a bore?

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Project Management Framework Types, Key Elements & Best Practices

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Popular ones include PRINCE2, CCPM (critical chain project management), scrum (primarily used in development environments) and the waterfall methodology. At this stage, you’ll review all notes, key successes and points that could be improved upon with stakeholders, team members, customers and manufacturers.

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The Big Event and it’s Ripple Effects

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In a previous blog post , I discussed the dangerous impact of discarding variation in task estimates and dependencies between other tasks or projects. In that blog, we took a simple set of projects and used the Latest Completion Date as their deadlines. Introducing the Big Event. Recovering from the Big Event.

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

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He’s the author of software simulators, and management games based on TOC ideas as well as numerous bestsellers on project and business management: Management Dilemmas, Manufacturing at Warp Speed, Supply Chain Management at Warp Speed, Throughput Economics, and others. Having defended his Ph.D.

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Theory of Constraints: A Guide for Project Managers

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While the theory of constraints is typically used in manufacturing, it can be helpful in controlling most any project. He focused his theory on project management with another book, Critical Chain , which came out in 1997. How the Theory of Constraints Works with Lean Manufacturing. What Is the Theory of Constraints?

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How to Improve Demand Planning

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Trees were cut rapidly, new manufacturing plants were built, and more people were hired to meet the demand. Here is a representation of a manufacturing system along with purchasing lead time. We see different results when we include LiquidPlanner’s Critical Chain Project Management as part of their demand planning.

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