ProjectManager.com

APRIL 5, 2024

Read about the benefits of an effective maintenance schedule and see how a maintenance plan can help a diverse group of industries. A maintenance schedule is the process by which maintenance departments plan, organize and coordinate the activities involved in equipment maintenance to make sure that everything is working properly.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2024

Or “resources” as we unkindly call people in project management. Securing the right resource (and enough of it) is a huge headache for PMO leaders and project professionals. Why is effective resource management difficult? Resource management is difficult because work is unpredictable and people aren’t very good at estimating!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Managing resources in professional services firms is crucial for maintaining sustainability and achieving anticipated employee performance goals. But unfortunately, many resource managers have to rely on approximation and guesswork because they don’t have the right tools and techniques. What is an example of resource forecasting?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2024

That doesn’t happen without an organizational strategy to plan for the organization’s long-term success. Organizational strategy is the long-term planning a company does to achieve some goal in the future. It’s not only communicative but helps management develop strategic plans so the company can accomplish its goals.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2024

When a project is planned, a set of steps are outlined to deliver a product or service. Resource requirements need to be identified and allocated for those steps to be executed. Think of resource requirements as the fuel that drives all project activities. What Are Resource Requirements in Project Management?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 23, 2024

They don’t directly deliver new products or services to customers, but improve the way an organization does business and that impacts customers. The goals of an operational project are to reduce costs, get work done more efficiently or produce a higher-quality product. This is called operational project management.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Making more than the market will support is going to lead to extra costs in production and warehouse that can bust the bank. That’s why a production budget is essential. But what is a production budget and what should be included in one? What Is a Production Budget? What Should Be Included In a Production Budget?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Manufacturers have to do more than produce a product, they also have to manage their operations. Manufacturing operations management is a method to control the structure and systems used by manufacturers when producing a product or its operations. Just toggle over whenever you want to see how production is running.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You’ve heard it countless times; teams are projects’ most valuable resource. Resource loading is a process to keep team members fully engaged throughout the project. Being able to balance the resource load across your team is important. What Is Resource Loading? Resource Loading vs. Resource Leveling.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 10, 2024

Order management is a large endeavor that includes warehouse employees and managers, resource planning and often third-party logistics and shipping partners. They should be happy with the product, of course, but also with how the company handled their order and delivered it. Customer satisfaction is also an objective.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2021

For any company to profit from a product, there must be a strategic plan in place to produce just enough to meet that need. Create too few products, and there’s a missed financial opportunity. Create too much, and money is wasted in production and warehousing. What Is Aggregate Planning? Try it for free!

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 11, 2024

Products can be manufactured, but they don’t end up in a customer’s hands until they’ve been stored in a warehouse. To run all those processes efficiently requires optimizing and integrating them into the larger warehouse management to ensure they’re working together to increase productivity while keeping costs low.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 17, 2024

There’s a digital copy, where products are digital, made on demand and delivered instantly to customers. Built-to-stock is when a product is made and warehoused in anticipation of demand. Built-to-order creates products when an order has been received. One of those business documents is a sales order.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 18, 2024

Project management software is the most efficient way to create timelines to plan, assign and track their tasks. When managing teams, it’s essential to create timelines to track their progress as they execute their tasks. Other tools can be used to create timelines, though, such as Excel spreadsheets or Google Sheets.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. Project strategy is made up of your plan and the tools that are used to complete the project. It also streamlines project planning, which increases efficiency as you work on new projects and don’t have to start at square one.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2024

Kanban in manufacturing and production has many uses, which we detail below, as well as how it relates to lean and just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing. Kanban is a visual method for managing workflow and production. The kanban cards move across the kanban board as they go from one production stage to the next. What Is Kanban?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Are you looking for a robust workforce planning, resource management and portfolio management tool? Product: Saviom. Pricing: Pricing is determined by the number of licenses you need as well as your specific product requirements, so they provide quotes only on request. Web-based, HTML5, works on any browser and tablet.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

You’re a professional services firm, but PSA tools just aren’t robust enough to manage the resource requirements for in-flight projects and the pipeline for workload management. Runn brings together the people side of your business with powerful project resource management features. Product: Runn. Hosting model: Cloud only.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 27, 2023

Resource management is planning, getting and using the resources that you need to do your project efficiently. Often, organizations use ‘resources’ as an unfriendly shorthand for ‘people’. When you manage multiple projects , the biggest resource challenge is normally people.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Many project management tools can help you plan, manage and track your projects. The Gantt chart captures the tasks, resources and dependencies of your project plan and is used in project management. ProjectManager’s robust Gantt charts help you plan, manage and track work in real time. What Is a Gantt Chart?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 22, 2024

Velocity is a complementary practice many Scrum teams use to plan future work. Every Sprint, the team adds up points for each Product Backlog item (PBI) that meets the Definition of Done by the end of the Sprint. Teams often “cash in” on Product Backlog items when they lack an understanding of the purpose of Velocity.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2024

Our Gantt charts allow you to organize tasks and their associated resources and costs to build a budget. Helps Allocate Organization’s Resources for the Most Important Projects Organizations run projects and expect those projects to participate in achieving their strategic goals. What Is the Project Intake Process?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 1, 2021

It requires a balance of production capacity and the necessary materials to fulfill orders. Once you’ve got your inventory secured, you need to schedule your production. Creating a master production schedule is crucial in ensuring your supplies match demand. What Is a Master Production Schedule?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 2, 2023

IT works with production, human resource management, purchasing, research and development (R&D), accounting and finance, marketing and many more. ProjectManager is project management software that helps you create project and portfolio plans, such as Gantt charts that organize tasks across a timeline. That’s only a few.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It has to be designed by an architect and planned by a general contractor. Then, subcontractors build it and vendors are responsible for the resources. A construction superintendent is a professional who helps to manage projects and makes sure that they’re running as planned. What Is a Construction Superintendent? Many things.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 22, 2021

Resources are the largest contributor to successful project delivery , and project managers spend significant time planning and managing their activities. Both resource and project managers work in tandem to develop resourcing strategies for projects. What is project resource management?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Everything you need for your manufacturing process is a resource—people, materials, equipment, software, facilities, etc. And whatever you’re making, you need to manage those resources to do it. That process is called manufacturing resource planning (MRP II), and it’s a method that used to work more effectively.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

PMI’s GenAI report says that a third of practitioners’ organizations have adopted AI in at least a moderate capacity. 39% of project managers say there are plans to deploy AI tools in their organizations. 21% of business leaders say deployment of AI tools is not in their current plans.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 18, 2024

MS Project integrates with MS products such as Office and has financial management tools and Gantt charts. Microsoft Planner also integrates with MS products and has kanban boards and other project views. Microsoft Planner also integrates with MS products and has kanban boards and other project views. May the best app win.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 2, 2023

Resource optimization is key to delivering a successful project. Resources, of course, are anything used to execute the project, including human resources and non-human resources. Resource management techniques keep a project on schedule. What Is Resource Optimization?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 22, 2023

Production management has to control a variety of functions to deliver projects on time without overspending. There’s the workforce responsible for the production itself, but also the equipment used, any raw materials needed, workflows and much more. Managing all aspects of production requires good management.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 30, 2024

Asana’s timeline is no substitute for a Gantt chart and ClickUp is more focused on productivity than project management. It’s a popular project management tool that is designed for teams to organize, collaborate, plan and execute their tasks. Strategic planning: Managers can use the tool to plan their long-term strategies and goals.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

ClickUp and Monday are two of the more visible project management software products on the market. ClickUp might have many features, but it’s lacking in reporting, portfolio and resource management features. ClickUp is a San Diego-based productivity platform that was founded in 2017 by Alex Urukowski and Zeb Evans.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It also links all four task dependencies to avoid costly delays, filters for the critical path to identify essential tasks and sets a baseline to track your planned effort against your actual effort. Both are popular work and project management software products, but only one will come out on top. What Is Trello?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Not that long ago, a project manager – who, for the purposes of this article has asked to remain anonymous – was planning out Phase 2 of her project. A project coordinator, or an admin resource from the PMO would be the perfect extra pair of hands. Her manager offered her a resource. And those resources were busy.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 27, 2023

ProjectManager is award-winning construction project management that has powerful Gantt charts that can help plan, manage and track project costs in real time. ProjectManager is award-winning construction project management that has powerful Gantt charts that can help plan, manage and track project costs in real time.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Do you have the resources? Resource forecasting is how you can answer that last question. Resources are anything you need to execute the project plan. Want to know why resource forecasting is so important? What Is Resource Forecasting in Project Management? What Is Resource Forecasting in Project Management?

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