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Shop Floor Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control

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For those new to the term, let’s first define its parts, such as what is a shop floor and a shop floor plan. What Is a Shop Floor Plan? A shop floor plan is used to manage the activities that happen or are related to the shop floor. That includes the management of operations planning, inventory, equipment and workers.

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The Velociteach Guide to Delivering Sustainable Projects

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By their very nature, certain projects scream sustainability ! Other projects may not have such lofty goals; however, those who lead the project teams should deliver sustainable outcomes. Sustainability in project management is no longer a choice but a necessity.

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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View planned hours and actual hours as well as planned costs and actual costs on the task card to help forecast and track resources and costs. Learn more History of Kanban Kanban was first introduced in Japan as a lean manufacturing approach pioneered by Taiichi Ohno in the late 1940s.

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Streamlining Success: Lean Principles in Project Management

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First, our last article touched on waste in the context of lean. Second, I am the father of a recent engineering graduate who is now working as an engineer, and part of the onboarding was a class on lean. This is where Lean principles come into play. The class began by asking the students to draw a pig. The overarching goal?

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10 Top Process Improvement Tools You Need to Create a More Sustainable Business

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A study by BCG/MIT finds that 90% of executives deem sustainability to be important, yet only 60% of companies incorporate sustainability as part of their business strategy, and even less (25%) integrate sustainability into the core of their business model. Implement effective process improvement techniques for sustainability.

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Return On Investment Vs Lean Agile Metrics for Strategic PMs

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However, the speed of change has made these methods less reliable – and ushered in a more lean-agile approach to metrics. This post examines the difference between ROI and Lean-Agile metrics, It identifies the key metrics of each, and the drivers behind those metrics. Value is delivered in small increments over time.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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A project management methodology is a set of principles, tools and techniques that are used to plan, execute and manage projects. The waterfall method makes use of Gantt charts for planning and scheduling; an example is below. The PMBOK provides definitions and guidelines for project planning, scheduling, executing and controlling.