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What Is Kanban? Meaning, Definitions & Best Practices

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Kanban is all the rage in project management. In fact, kanban has grown so much in popularity, there are now countless project management tools to help people plan and prioritize tasks on kanban boards, which are visual panels with virtual cards that can be moved around by the user to arrange orders of tasks or to-do items.

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What Is Rolling Wave Planning?

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Sometimes the whole picture isn’t clear when you’re planning a project. But with a traditional project management methodology, such as waterfall, you set everything up first and then you’re stuck with it. But the waterfall methodology is only one way to manage a project. What Is Rolling Wave Planning?

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Return On Investment Vs Lean Agile Metrics for Strategic PMs

The Strategic Project Manager

There are well-established ways to evaluate investments – and potential projects – for an organization. However, the speed of change has made these methods less reliable – and ushered in a more lean-agile approach to metrics. Traditional financial metrics like ROI (and others to be explored below) are still relevant!

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ERP systems explained simply

Inloox

EOQ (Economic Order Quantity) did not require a computer at all, only pen and paper were used to improve time planning in production. For the first time, various components of production were combined in the form of modules on a central platform. ERP vs. PM: Where are the similarities and differences? What is an ERP system?

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The Project Manager’s Guide to Leading Multiple Teams

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Project managers play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful execution of projects, acting as the driving force behind team coordination, resource allocation, and stakeholder management. Beyond simply managing tasks, project managers are also responsible for leading and inspiring their teams to achieve excellence.

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IT project management explained: How to run great IT projects

Planio

If you’re used to shipping features and new products, IT project management (ITPM) probably isn’t on your radar. IT project managers play a critical role in ensuring their company’s IT capability is dependable, up-to-date, and secure. Jump to a section: What is IT project management? How is it unique?

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5 Best Project Management Certifications and Courses of 2019

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Project Management certifications, or a certified professional are not essential to an organization’s core structure, but their involvement makes a difference in ten folds. From the 1960s to early 2000s, Agile Framework adoption was still in its infancy. Why Are Project Management Certifications Important?