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5 Stats You Need to Know from the 2017 State of Project Management in Manufacturing Report

LiquidPlanner

To better understand how manufacturers practice project management, we surveyed more than 100 executives, engineers, and project managers, resulting in the 2017 State of Project Management in Manufacturing report. Work smarter, not harder” could be manufacturers’ motto in 2017.

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Understanding the 8 Functions Associated with Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Provide visibility into project progress data and market feedback to guide decision-making. Provide Resources and Direction Allocate resources effectively to support operations, tasks, and activities throughout the project phases and achieve targets for project costs and the whole project scope.

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Project Management Challenges with Artificial Intelligence

International Institute for Learning

As technology increases within the next two decades, AI is expected to replace humans in many of the simple and mundane tasks that are part of project and program management activities (Grace et al., Brynjolfsson & McAfee (2017) discuss hidden biases that can exist in the data, and the difficulty in understanding and correcting errors.

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What is A System for Value Delivery in Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Functions Associated with Projects A system for value delivery encompasses a range of knowledge areas associated with the project lifecycle, including initiating, planning, executing, and closing (PMBOK, 2017). Organizations can optimize project performance and outcomes by integrating these functions into a cohesive framework.

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What is project scope? (Plus 7 steps to help you define project scope)

Resource Guru

But your project scope should inform the project plan in which each task is tied to a specific project objective. The project plan will keep you on track and make sure your project team is always working on the right things. Download our project plan template. Manage project cost.

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A Short History of Project Management

MPUG

Another major project related happening was the growing popularity of value engineering (VE), which was widely used at General Electric. This functioned to help measure the value of alternatives (for example, using cheaper resources and/or materials to reduce project costs or design-to-cost) especially when there was a scarcity of resources.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Risk Management: A Maturity Model Based on ISO 31000,” Diogo Proença, Joao Estevens, Ricardo Vieira, and José Borbinha, IEEE 19 th Conference on Business Informatics , 2017. 43, December?February