ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2024

It has tools that allow you to plan sprints, track the completion of tasks, balance your team member’s workload and create product roadmaps. Yes, Jira’s kanban view is one of its most popular features and software developers commonly use it for sprint planning. Jira Kanban Board Example This is what a Jira kanban board looks like.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2024

After the war, the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota looked at how supermarkets stocked only what they expected to sell at a given time. What Is Kanban? Images and documents can be attached to kanban cards, which can also have descriptions, subtasks, tags, priority, planned start, duration, due dates and more.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Over the course of this blog, we’ll discuss how ITSM is implemented, managed and delivered to meet the needs of an organization and how project management software can help facilitate those processes. What Is IT Service Management (ITSM)? That ticket will show up in the task queue of the IT team, where it’s sorted by importance.

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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. Read about the benefits of an effective maintenance schedule and see how a maintenance plan can help a diverse group of industries. What Is a Maintenance Schedule?

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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. Once one understands what resource requirements are in project management, next there is estimating what those resources will be and managing them. What Are Resource Requirements in Project Management? That’s a lot of variables.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 19, 2024

Then we’ll list what should be included in the request for quote, the industries that use it and we’ll even have an example to illustrate what we mean. Then we’ll list what should be included in the request for quote, the industries that use it and we’ll even have an example to illustrate what we mean.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Tracking project performance gives project managers the data they need to keep the actual effort of the project aligned with the planned effort and deliver the project on time and within its budget. But what exactly is project performance? What Is Project Performance? Project management software can help.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 4, 2024

Choosing the best kanban software for your team might be overwhelming, especially if you’re not sure of what features to look for. Trello doesn’t have Gantt charts, lacks any resource management or cost management features and has overly basic features for project planning, scheduling or tracking. Does Trello Have a Kanban Board?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Manufacturing engineering is what keeps those integrated systems operating. After defining what manufacturing engineering is, we’ll look at the professionals who work in that discipline, the manufacturing engineers. What Is Manufacturing Engineering? The goal is to produce quality products for the least amount of cost.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Before getting into the benefits of manufacturing operations management, let’s define what the term means and the areas that are under manufacturing operations management. Before getting into the benefits of manufacturing operations management, let’s define what the term means and the areas that are under manufacturing operations management.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 2, 2017

Top Blog Posts for 2016. The What, Why, and How of Projects – 3,229. 7 Sharp Ways to Improve Project Quality – 849. I plan to focus more on project managers working in the financial industry. The post My Top 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2016 appeared first on. The top countries were: The United States.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

That is, they all develop strategic plans to achieve long-term goals to create value. To communicate this, organizations will usually employ what is called a strategy map. If you’re unfamiliar with a strategic map, we’ll explain what it is and what is included in one. What Is a Strategy Map? Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 9, 2024

This will provide a better idea of what they can and can’t do for an organization. Google Sheets templates can be helpful for some areas of project management, but they can’t offer the planning, scheduling and tracking tools that a project management software like ProjectManager has.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

For those unsure what kanban is, we’ll first explain the kanban system and then go into kanban history from its development to its uses in manufacturing, project management and software development. What Is Kanban? Before getting into kanban history, it’s important to understand what kanban is. Kanban as a name came later.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

Learn more The first project management basic is the definition of a project, which allows us to understand what project management is and why it’s so important for any type of organization. What Is a Project? These all depend on what results you want to achieve and when you want to achieve them.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A self-managing team is taking decisions about who does what, when, and how. Reminder: the objective of the Sprint Retrospective is to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness. Delivered a Done Increment - i.e. a product that has the expected quality level? What are the facts and observations we gathered?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

If you’re unaware of what a project management triangle is or even if you do know, we’ll define it and explain its importance in project management. Then we’ll go into how to manage the project management triangle, what the benefits of it are and if there are other constraints outside of the project management triangle.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But what does program governance mean and why is it so important? We’ll answer those questions and explain what a program governance plan is and the key components to a program governance framework. What Is Program Governance? Another thing to consider is stakeholder satisfaction and quality.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 10, 2024

We’ll explain what order management is and explore how an order management process is conducted. What Is Order Management? What Is Order Management? Order management is a large endeavor that includes warehouse employees and managers, resource planning and often third-party logistics and shipping partners.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2024

But how do they know what to work on? This construction document helps subcontractors understand what they need to do if they have any questions. First, we’ll explain what an RFI in construction is and then list what should be included in one. What Is an RFI in Construction?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What Is Process Manufacturing? ProjectManager is award-winning project management software with powerful Gantt charts that plan out the entire process of manufacturing step by step to ensure everything is done properly. Once planned, set a baseline so you can track the project’s variance in real time to keep to your schedule.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 4, 2023

What exactly is a project owner, what does the project owner do and so forth? What Is a Project Owner? They have the big picture and look at what the project is achieving and how it fits in with the larger strategy of the business or organization. Learn more What Does a Project Owner Do?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 25, 2023

However, there’s a fourth constraint that’s less discussed: quality. Cost of quality (COQ) helps you avoid neglecting quality and boost customer satisfaction. How COQ does this, especially in project management, is what we’ll define. What Is Cost of Quality (COQ)?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Whether you’re a big or small business and no matter what product you manufacture or service you provide, you’re always looking to deliver the highest quality and greatest value for your customers. Learn what operations management is and its key functions. What Is Operations Management?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Simply put, quality control in manufacturing is important. Quality control in manufacturing means your customers get what they’ve paid for. Let’s learn what quality control is, some of the methods to employ it and the roles of your team to ensure quality control in manufacturing is delivered. Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 23, 2024

To better understand operational project management requires defining what an operational project is, how it differs from strategic projects and what operational project management is. What Is an Operational Project? No matter what the type of project is, project management software helps deliver it more efficiently.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In the past series of blog posts we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, and we covered the Scrum Values. Self-managing, meaning the team internally decides who does what, when, and how. And so the Sprint Backlog supports deciding on what. The Sprint Backlog includes an actionable plan for delivering the Increment.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2024

Self-managing, meaning the team internally decides who does what, when, and how. Being accountable for creating any aspect of a usable Increment that adheres to the expected quality levels each Sprint, Developers do need to take active part in making decisions together with the Product Owner and Scrum Master.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But what does governance on projects actually look like? A good governance model requires every project to have a project sponsor and while you read about sponsorship all the time on blogs like these in reality I still come across people who don’t know who their sponsor is. You have a plan. You have clear reporting.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In the past series of blog posts we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, and we covered the Scrum Values. Self-managing, meaning the team internally decides who does what, when, and how. It provides a target to plan against and allows the Scrum Team to define what items would be needed to fulfil this goal.

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Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

When we did our roundup of the 50 best Project Management Blogs in 2017 it quickly became one of our most popular posts. So, here then is our list of the 52 best Project Management Blogs for 2019. How do People Consume Project Management Blogs? It seems to me that the blogs that thrive will offer something specific.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 21, 2022

What is a production flow chart? What Is a Production Flow Chart? It shows the stages, equipment used and quality control checks where you’ll check the product to ensure it meets quality expectations. ProjectManager is online software that turns production flow charts into workable manufacturing plans. Learn more.

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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. What Is Project Strategy? Project strategy is made up of your plan and the tools that are used to complete the project. Project strategy is also useful in sharing the details of a project plan with stakeholders.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2023

Planning an event can range from a meeting at work to a convention and everything in between. It’s another project where you have to manage time, cost and scope (and don’t forget quality) to deliver on a deadline. ProjectManager is award-winning software that can help you plan, manage and track your events.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 16, 2023

Contractor management is a process to manage the contractors and make sure they’re doing what they need to do, when they need to do it and meeting quality standards. What Is a Contractor? Learn more What Is Contractor Management? Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 17, 2024

To better understand what a sales order is, we’ll define the term, list what should be included and outline the sales order process. What Is a Sales Order? The sales order process, which we’ll cover in a bit, needs management to ensure that vendors and customers get what they want. We’ll get to that next.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2023

Adaptation is making adjustments in order to minimise any deviations to acceptable limits related to agreed goals. The Developers are accountable for instilling quality while implementing Product Backlog Items in the next Increment. Remember where the required quality level is described? Don't want to miss any of these blog posts?

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