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Lean Construction Principles & Best Practices

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There’s more than one way to manage a construction project. From the world of manufacturing comes an approach called lean construction. But lean manufacturing and lean construction are two different things. Let’s explore lean construction, defining what it is and its key principles. What Is Lean Construction?

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Contractor Management: A Key to Successful Projects

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Construction projects must be well orchestrated. The goal of contractor management is to plan, manage and track the work of contractors to ensure that they’re meeting milestones in the schedule and keeping to the project budget while maintaining safe working conditions and delivering quality work. What Is a Contractor?

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15 Tested & Practical Tips from Women in Project Management

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I wanted to share some tips from the fabulous women in project management whom I have interviewed on this blog. Here are 15 practical tips from our community of amazing women, all tested and proven by the women themselves. 1: Book Virtual Meetings on a Schedule. Can you make these work in your projects and career? 2: Delegate.

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Making a Construction Estimate: 5 Tips for Better Outcomes

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Budgets are a foundational pillar of any successful construction project. Your construction budget allows you to achieve your objectives. It requires a construction estimate to ensure the most accurate findings. It requires a construction estimate to ensure the most accurate findings. What Is a Construction Estimate?

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A Quick Guide to Change Orders for Construction & Other Industries

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To keep the project on schedule and within its budget, those changes have to be managed. Because of these changes to budget and schedule, change orders are not acted upon until both the owner of the project and the contractor responsible for the change agree on terms and conditions. Changes are part of delivering any project.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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Some of them work better on particular industries or projects, so you’ll need to learn about project management methodologies to decide which one works best for you. The waterfall method makes use of Gantt charts for planning and scheduling; an example is below. Top 10 Project Management Methodologies. Waterfall Methodology.

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Redefining Project Functions, A Scrum Perspective (From PM to PSM 2)

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And by no means can I be complete in one blog post… Providing oversight and coordination, includes planning, monitoring and controlling. Very often this happens through coordination meetings. An agile organisation, using the Scrum framework will deal differently with these so called functions. It’s a planning artefact.

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