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6 Top Project Management Books for Engineers and Manufacturers

LiquidPlanner

While engineers learn a lot of valuable skills in school, project management isn’t always one of them. Many engineers end up learning PM skills on the job and on their own time. If you’re an engineer looking to grow your project management skillset, you’re in the right place. Critical Chain by Dr. Eliyahu M.

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What is Visual Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Why do you think projects are still late and over budget when professional project management techniques have been around for years? In a new product development process, FMC Technologies tripled engineering productivity and reduced lead time by 70%. The team may feel a little like they’re playing resource “Whack-A-Mole”.

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How to Improve Demand Planning

LiquidPlanner

Understanding the lead time with more confidence is one unique feature of LiquidPlanner’s demand planning engine that delivers timeline predictions with 90% confidence by using the power of Planning Intelligence. We see different results when we include LiquidPlanner’s Critical Chain Project Management as part of their demand planning.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). What It Is: Introduced by engineers working at Motorola in the mid-1980s, Six Sigma works to improve quality by identifying what is not working in the project. But they all share one thing in common: getting deliverables done on time and within budget. Waterfall is structured.

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A Super-Quick Guide to PERT, Critical Path, and All the Other Ways to Manage a Project

Redbooth

In this short guide, we’ll look at several established project management systems, including PERT, Critical Path, and Critical Chain, to help you find new ways to make your next project a success. Henry Gantt came up with his famous chart after working as a mechanical engineer for steel manufacturers.

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Aircraft Engineering: How to Manage a Typical Project with Maximum Efficiency

Epicflow Blog

Aircraft engineering is a complex and constantly developing sector of aerospace and defense, where experts from various areas of technical expertise are involved. What drives efficiency of aircraft engineering projects? Tips on Managing Aircraft Engineering Projects with Maximum Efficiency. Keep control of changing requirements.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

The way I got into it was when I was at Perot systems, I was working in Jim champions organization and champion was one of the guys that led business process re-engineering. Champion was in there designing, he realized his shortcomings, to business process re engineering. – Critical chain project management?

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