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Free Timesheet Template for Google Sheets: Track Labor Costs Online

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From construction to manufacturing and retail, this Google Sheets timesheet template can help organizations of any industry streamline their time tracking and payroll process of their hourly employees. Simply enter your task names and their due dates and then this Gantt chart Google Sheets template creates a project timeline for you.

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Exploring the differences: Projects vs operations examples

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Operations management focuses on maximizing efficiency while minimizing costs. Projects cost money and mess up efficiency by changing ways of working, but when a project finishes, the end product is handed over into the operational environment. Let’s say you work for a clothing retailer. More on that later.

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What Is Job Costing? When to Use a Costing Sheet (Example Included)

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Job costing is a type of accounting method that helps identify project costs and track them to keep to your budget. It tracks all costs and revenue associated with a particular project and is commonly used in construction projects, but it can also be found in manufacturing, engineering, retail, logistics, healthcare and more.

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The Importance of Operational Project Management for Businesses

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Therefore, any project that has the objective of improving efficiency, decreasing costs or improving productivity in the short term is operational. A strategic project is about creating something new and innovative. That’s because all these types of projects will give the business a strategic advantage over its competition.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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While scrum has been scaled to apply to bigger projects and organizations, its roots are in agile software development and has come to work seamlessly in that smaller, nimble environment. That hasn’t stopped practitioners from using scrum in varying industries, from retail logistics to event planning.

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An Introduction to Workforce Management

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A bad hire can cost your business valuable workplace productivity, not to mention nearly 20 percent of their salary on average. Whether you’re in IT, construction or retail, mastering the basics of workforce management can benefit you immensely. This is called Project Workforce Management. What is Workforce Management?

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Project Budgeting: An Interview with Sol Benady

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He started his career as an auditor in London, trained with E&Y where he qualified as an accountant, and then moved into consulting for retail and investment banking for a wide range of projects and clients. I talked to him in the Project Management Club on Clubhouse about project financial management and handling budgets.

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