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Process Optimization: Get More From Your Processes

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 10, 2019

No process is perfect immediately. Process optimization methods can help guide those tweaks and improvements. But if these workers have some glaring inefficiencies in their process, then the rest of your facility can be entirely thrown off course. What is a Process Optimization? Process Optimization Methods.

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Process Optimization in Project Management (3): Lean Project Management

Inloox

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In the last blog post on process optimization in project management we introduced you to the 5-S framework, which is also very popular in Lean Management. A practical approach on Lean Project Management Now you are probably wondering which processes are obsolete and where you are wasting time and money in your projects.

Lean

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Process Optimization in Project Management (2): The 5S-Framework

Inloox

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Kaizen with the 5S Method In the last blog post we already discussed the Kaizen management concept. One of these tools is the 5S method, with which you can optimize your working environment in only five steps. Most of all this methodology provides an initial introduction to process optimization for smaller companies.

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Warehouse Management: How to Run Efficient Warehouse Operations

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 11, 2024

It acts as a waystation, a part of the larger manufacturing and fulfillment processes. This is managed by a warehouse management system, which we’ll explain, and detail how project management software can help improve that process. Warehouse management is the process by which the day-to-day operations of a warehouse are run.

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Process Optimization in Project Management (3): Lean Project Management

Inloox

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In the last blog post on process optimization in project management we introduced you to the 5-S framework, which is also very popular in Lean Management. A practical approach on Lean Project Management Now you are probably wondering which processes are obsolete and where you are wasting time and money in your projects.

Lean

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Unpacking the Value of BPMN Models for Business Process Optimization

Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) has emerged as a powerful tool for optimizing business processes. By providing a visual language for representing and documenting business processes, BPMN enables organizations to gain insights into their operations and identify areas for improvement.

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Mastering Process Flow: Key Strategies for Optimizing Marketing Operations

Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

With so many moving parts and tasks to manage, a well-optimized process flow can make all the difference in maintaining smooth and successful marketing operations. We’ll also discuss overcoming challenges and explore how to measure the impact of process flow optimization on marketing operations.

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From Onboarding to Expert: Optimizing Projects and Processes with LiquidPlanner

LiquidPlanner

APRIL 11, 2019

Here at LiquidPlanner we’ve identified four main stages our customers go through to optimize their projects and processes. Throughout this series of blog posts, we’ll discuss each of the four stages to LiquidPlanner success. Throughout this series of blog posts, we’ll discuss each of the four stages to LiquidPlanner success.

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Risk Optimization in Scrum: Empirical Approach to Managing Uncertainty (From PM to PSM 12)

Scrum.org

MARCH 26, 2024

Optimizing Risk Responses in professional project management resonates profoundly with the empirical foundation of Scrum. For Project Managers transitioning to Scrum Masters, understanding how Scrum’s empiricism and iterative process effectively manage risks is key to successful initiative outcomes.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. The scrum master is the team expert on the process, and they are instrumental in guiding the team to optimize the use of scrum in the project.

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Kanban in Manufacturing: Main Uses & Benefits

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s a flexible scheduling system that can be applied to manufacturing, agile, DevOps and virtually any repeatable process. Done properly, kanban can reduce expenses, improve customer satisfaction, create more efficient processes and limit risk. Therefore, kanban in manufacturing can be applied to various aspects of the work.

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How to Make a Maintenance Schedule (Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 5, 2024

It keeps equipment in optimal working condition, which leads to more efficiency and quality and keeps work on time and within budget. 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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The Best of This Year: Presenting Your 10 Favorite InLoox Blog Posts from 2019!

Inloox

DECEMBER 4, 2019

6: Process Optimization in Project Management (3): Lean Project Management Lean Project Management relies on efficient processes: With the customer benefit always in mind, unnecessary efforts are eliminated. That's exactly what we're going to examine briefly in this blog post. #1:

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

Kanban is a scheduling system used to optimize workflow and has, since its inception, grown into a project management methodology employed across many industries. This created less waste and increased the efficiency of processes. Toyota implemented the kanban system for managing most business processes by 1963.

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4 Rules To Follow When Writing A Blog Post For Your eCommerce Store

Binfire

JANUARY 9, 2023

One of the most influential and inexpensive content marketing strategies for an eCommerce business is to write a good, SEO-optimized blog post. In that context, drafting high-quality blog entries and posting regularly should be prioritized by everyone who wants to lure more customers to their online shop. .

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Organizational Resources Basics: Managing Company Resources

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Resource management is the process of allocating those resources as efficiently as possible. This means understanding your business operations, which are the routine tasks and processes used to generate revenue. Project management software helps you collaborate and streamline your resource management processes. But there’s more.

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How Project ERP Can Benefit Your Project-Based Organization

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 13, 2024

It identifies, wins, optimizes and delivers projects for a business in a manner that can be repeated successfully. It provides a full view into processes, key performance indicators (KPIs) and other metrics. They also optimize resource utilization and identify problem areas and opportunities.

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Resource Requirements in Project Management: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2024

To help with this process, we’ll define resource requirements and link to a free resource plan template. To optimize resource utilization, use our real-time dashboards , which track your costs, time, workload and more so you can catch issues and respond to them quickly to stay on schedule and keep to your budget.

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What Is Resource Optimization? Techniques & Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

MAY 2, 2023

Resource optimization is key to delivering a successful project. To have the right resources at the right time, project managers need to understand resource optimization techniques. To have the right resources at the right time, project managers need to understand resource optimization techniques. What Is Resource Optimization?

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Topic Ideas and How to Succeed with Your Creative Agency Blog

Function Point

JULY 4, 2023

In our last blog post we spoke about why your creative agency should have a blog. Now that you are hopefully convinced that it is worthwhile to start producing content online to highlight your expertise, we will present some key success factors that will help you develop a successful blogging strategy.

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[BLOG/VLOG] 7 Meanings of Kanban - what is Kanban all about?

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In order to understand the Kanban Method better, it would be best to refer to Scrum as it is the best-known framework of the delivery process. There are only a few advices like there should be somebody who manages the process and somebody who manages service requests. The process is developed step by step.

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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. That’s because the project teams involved with these successful projects follow a defined and repeatable process, which mitigates risk and achieves objectives. It’s essential to keep projects successful for any organization to thrive.

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The Construction Resource Management Process Explained

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 9, 2024

There are many different types of construction resources beyond labor and we’ll define them as well as the process for construction resource management. Construction resource management is the process of planning and managing resources on a construction site. What Is Construction Resource Management?

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IT Service Management (ITSM): Frameworks, Processes & Phases

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Information technology (IT) involves the use of computers, digital storage, networking and other physical devices, infrastructure and processes to create, process, store, secure and exchange electronic data. IT service management (ITSM) is the process of how those services meet the needs of the end users who employ them.

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Ultimate Guide to Business Process Management (BPM)

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 16, 2022

That’s what business process management is all about. Business process management looks at the processes a company employs to deliver its goods or services to its customers. What Is Business Process Management (BPM)? BPM designs, automates, executes, controls, measures and optimizes business processes.

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Generative AI for Business: Top 7 Productivity Boosts

NimbleWork

APRIL 7, 2024

Some of the popular AI technologies in the market are AI-powered chatbots, robotic process automation (RPA), and generative AI like ChatGPT. That said, here’s how this technology can positively impact your company or organization: Reduced manual workload: Intelligent automation is designed to reduce manual work and accelerate processes.

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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

It dramatically decreased the cost of rework by building quality into every process step. The base is Leadership, Systems Thinking, and Process Integrity. Creating alignment between the strategy and the work performed ensures that resources are optimized to support the common, shared objectives. Lean is a set of principles.

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Can Scrum Teams Use Scrum And Kanban, Simultaneously?

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In this blog post, we focus on one specific topic that emerged: “Can Scrum teams use Scrum and Kanban, simultaneously?”. And as such, Scrum is a framework for empirical process control. As most workflows exist to optimize value, the strategy of Kanban is to optimize value by optimizing flow. Check the video! .

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How the Product Owner supports Adaptation (31)

Scrum.org

AUGUST 10, 2023

Remember that Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and that adaptation is the third pillar, following transparency and inspection. Being accountable for optimizing the value of the product, the Product Owner is managing the Product Backlog (PBL) and as such adapts it quite frequently. Let’s take the Product Owner.

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8 Critical Red Flags Your Kanban Adoption Is Incomplete

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Ignoring feedback hampers the process. For insight into one effective method of workflow visualization, see our blog post on value stream mapping. Flexibility and adaptation are key to optimizing your Kanban process. Data-Driven Decision Making : Optimize processes through enhanced predictability.

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Order Fulfillment: Process, Models & Documentation

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 3, 2024

Products go through many processes before they reach a customer. What is order fulfillment and how does it differ from order processing and order management? We’ll explain that, the order fulfillment process and list the different types of order fulfillment models. That’s called order fulfillment.

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How you can define your product group

Scrum.org

MAY 2, 2022

The third blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach , by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. The part they are working on is often a component or a specific activity in the development process; they use a narrow product definition. . Credit conveyor process.

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The PM Skills You Can Forget About (And the Ones You Really Need to Know)

LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Courses, coaches, blogs, and websites try to give us a rounded view of what project managers need, and some skills and tools do still have value in some situations. So what processes and techniques will catapult your career and what are the areas that you can… overlook? That’s not to say that project management training is pointless.

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Guiding the organization in multi-skill development

Scrum.org

MAY 23, 2022

The sixth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach , by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. Thus, the team doesn't work on the most critical features from a customer perspective and sub-optimize value delivery. The team skills required to do that are always changing.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Embracing the Hybrid Project Revolution

NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Adopting Agile requires change in culture, mindset and operational processes. In this blog, we will highlight the differences between the Agile and Waterfall methodology and discuss how the Hybrid Agile paradigm has emerged as a result. Design: An implementation solution that aims to optimally realize these objectives.

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Facilitation and Conflict - Why?

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This will require some preparation to create an agenda that will guide the group through a process to achieve the outcome. With more effort and insight, we can unlock many more options – and then select the optimal solution. . Through this there will often be moments of disagreement or conflict. Call to Action .

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Uncovering the Essentials of Skilled Facilitation for Agile Teams

Scrum.org

AUGUST 15, 2023

Professional Scrum facilitation skills are crucial tools for effective Agile team facilitation, and these skills empower Scrum Masters and team members alike to direct conversations and decision-making processes effectively, thus fostering a high-performing Agile environment.

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Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile: Strategies for Success

NimbleWork

MARCH 7, 2024

This is substantiated by the fact that large enterprises are slow to embrace change, and Agile is predominantly driven by a shift in mindset, culture and process of operating at speed. Educate the workforce responsible for adopting changes in their operational processes, culture, team dynamics and expectations.

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The Scrum Guide - A Leader’s Perspective

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In this series of blogs, we’ll talk about leadership outside the Scrum Team. The first blog post will focus on what Scrum means for you as a leader. Future blogs will explore: How to create the conditions in which Scrum can thrive. Let's continuously inspect and adap our processes and policies.

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How the Product Owner supports Adaptation - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (31)

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Remember that Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and that adaptation is the third pillar, following transparency and inspection. Being accountable for optimizing the value of the product, the Product Owner is managing the Product Backlog (PBL) and as such adapts it quite frequently. Let’s take the Product Owner. .

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Retrospectives: The (Not so) Secret Weapon for High-Performing Teams

NimbleWork

MARCH 20, 2024

By analyzing their work, teams can identify areas for improvement, brainstorm solutions collaboratively, and ultimately refine their processes to achieve even greater results. Whether you’re producing goods, delivering services, or managing projects, optimizing workflows and streamlining processes is key to achieving success.

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Key Technology Trends in the Construction Industry in 2024

Epicflow Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Technology Trends in Construction: 2024 Outlook Like any other industry, the construction domain has been increasingly digitalized in recent years – companies are leveraging software, sensors, drones, and other technologies that revolutionize the construction processes and are sure to transform the future of construction.

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Where to Start with Scrum? Is Value Stream Mapping Your Answer?

Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2023

In this blog series, drawing from our vast experience, we'll guide you through it. VSM acts as a catalyst for continuous refinement, offering insights into existing processes. In the realm of software development, principles of DevOps and a commitment to technical excellence can further enhance the process.

SCRUM

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What about Value Streams?

Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2024

Understanding their differences is key to optimizing processes, enhancing efficiency, and delivering value. read my blog: What are the different Types of Efficiencies? Operational streams are process-oriented, focusing on delivering and maintaining existing value. Flow efficiency is key.

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Process Optimization: Get More From Your Processes

Process Optimization in Project Management (3): Lean Project Management

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Process Optimization in Project Management (2): The 5S-Framework

Warehouse Management: How to Run Efficient Warehouse Operations

Process Optimization in Project Management (3): Lean Project Management

Unpacking the Value of BPMN Models for Business Process Optimization

Mastering Process Flow: Key Strategies for Optimizing Marketing Operations

From Onboarding to Expert: Optimizing Projects and Processes with LiquidPlanner

Risk Optimization in Scrum: Empirical Approach to Managing Uncertainty (From PM to PSM 12)

Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

Kanban in Manufacturing: Main Uses & Benefits

How to Make a Maintenance Schedule (Template Included)

The Best of This Year: Presenting Your 10 Favorite InLoox Blog Posts from 2019!

Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

4 Rules To Follow When Writing A Blog Post For Your eCommerce Store

Organizational Resources Basics: Managing Company Resources

How Project ERP Can Benefit Your Project-Based Organization

Resource Requirements in Project Management: A Quick Guide

What Is Resource Optimization? Techniques & Best Practices

Topic Ideas and How to Succeed with Your Creative Agency Blog

[BLOG/VLOG] 7 Meanings of Kanban - what is Kanban all about?

Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

The Construction Resource Management Process Explained

IT Service Management (ITSM): Frameworks, Processes & Phases

Ultimate Guide to Business Process Management (BPM)

Generative AI for Business: Top 7 Productivity Boosts

Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

Can Scrum Teams Use Scrum And Kanban, Simultaneously?

How the Product Owner supports Adaptation (31)

8 Critical Red Flags Your Kanban Adoption Is Incomplete

Order Fulfillment: Process, Models & Documentation

How you can define your product group

The PM Skills You Can Forget About (And the Ones You Really Need to Know)

Guiding the organization in multi-skill development

Agile vs Waterfall: Embracing the Hybrid Project Revolution

Facilitation and Conflict - Why?

Uncovering the Essentials of Skilled Facilitation for Agile Teams

Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile: Strategies for Success

The Scrum Guide - A Leader’s Perspective

How the Product Owner supports Adaptation - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (31)

Retrospectives: The (Not so) Secret Weapon for High-Performing Teams

Key Technology Trends in the Construction Industry in 2024

Where to Start with Scrum? Is Value Stream Mapping Your Answer?

What about Value Streams?

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