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How to Calculate Total Manufacturing Cost

ProjectManager.com

Manufacturing isn’t free. There are various costs involved in the production of any product. Being able to make accurate estimates of your manufacturing costs is critical to a company’s profitability and competitive advantage. Before work hits the production line, one must know how to calculate manufacturing cost. First, we need to understand what manufacturing cost is, the different types of manufacturing costs as well as some examples to get context for what we’re talking about.

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Mastering Sprint Planning: A Journey into Scrum's Heart

Scrum.org

In my years navigating the Scrum landscape, Sprint planning has consistently emerged as a linchpin. It's where the rubber meets the road, where visions transform into actionable tasks. But how does one ensure this process is as effective as possible? Enjoy this video? Like and subscribe to our channel: [link] ! First and foremost, it's paramount that everyone on your team understands the Product Backlog.

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I've got a plan: nobody cares

Musings on Project Management

It's so damn frustrating!You spend a lot of time planning, coordinating, evaluating.And then it's D-Day, circumstances intervene, and nobody follows the plan ? (Well, they follow bits and pieces, but the plan as such is almost unrecognizable)That's a few sentences to say what we all know:No plan survives the first touch with realitySo, if this is all too obvious, what is it you do?

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Product Backlog Item Naming Conventions

Scrum.org

I was a Product Owner on a small Scrum Team that had been building a software product for about a year. During our first year together, we were using Scrum quite well and managing all of our artifacts, including the Product Backlog, in an analog fashion (sticky notes and whiteboards). The Scrum Team began to explore digital tools that could help us manage our Scrum artifacts, specifically, I did as the Product Owner because it was becoming quite difficult to manage the Product Backlog.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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‘Delay Thinking’ Is a Project Success Factor

PM Times

Often, it is better to spend more time than it is to speed to meet a deadline. Fast is good but not always. When rushing to get something done the probability of causing damage is high. Delay Thinking Delay thinking recognizes that there is a delay or lag between an action and its effect. […] The post ‘Delay Thinking’ Is a Project Success Factor appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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5 Strategies to Improve Teamwork

LiquidPlanner

Through the years, we’ve all heard hundreds of quotes about teamwork. People often discuss how effective cooperation and collaboration skills can create a more efficient workplace. We hear it so often because it’s true. With the right combination of social skills, collaborative effort, and strong team leadership, businesses like yours have seen a 17% rise in productivity with a 21% rise in profitability 1.

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La transformation digitale une révolution culturelle plus que technologique

Scrum.org

La transformation digitale, suite à la transformation numérique démarrée il y a plus de 20 ans, a bouleversé notre quotidien. Cette révolution a bien évidemment changé de dimension avec l'avènement de nouvelles plateformes digitales, le cloud, le big data, l'omnicanalité, l'évolution de l'expérience utilisateur, etc. L'accélération et l'évolution des modes de consommation presque exponentielles dans leur adoption, en particulier en période de Covid, a complètement transformé l'horizon.

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Sitetracker Launches GIS Link to Speed Broadband Deployments Worldwide

Sitetracker

Sitetracker, the global deployment operations management software provider serving nearly 300 companies, today launched new capabilities to its already market-leading solution designed to help network operators, engineering, and construction companies accelerate the rollout of fiber broadband by layering construction plans with geographic information systems (GIS) data.

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[VLOG] The 10 Thinking Hats Of Scrum: Making Choices And Harnessing Conflict

Scrum.org

Does your Scrum Team find itself locked into destructive conflicts where each team member is convinced that their way is the only way, the best way and that everybody else who dares to disagree is crazy? Are you interested in shifting the dynamic from an "us vs. them" adversarial conflict to an "us vs. the challenge" partnership? What would be like if your team could harness every conflict to reveal new possibilities the team can align around?

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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The Technology Behind Real-Time Web Communication: WebRTC

Productivity Land

Real-time web communication has become a vital component in business and personal communications. The technology behind it is called WebRTC, which stands for Web Real-Time Communication. WebRTC allows users to communicate with each other over the internet using video, audio, and data streams without having to download any additional software or plugins.

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Portfolio Management: Top 10 Things to Know About A Portfolio Roadmap (Part - 2)

Management Yogi

In the earlier post, we checked the top five points (and utilities) of a portfolio roadmap.

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New Recurring Tasks Options

ActiveCollab

Automating work has been a dream for managers worldwide for decades. Getting rid of tedious assignments such as creating the same assignments repeatedly, rescheduling them according to unpredictable circumstances, and fitting together regular activities with occasional ones is ActiveCollab's goal. We've improved the feature so many of our users know and love: recurring tasks.

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