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Level up your project schedules: 5 advanced techniques

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Critical path method Do you really know the critical path of your projects? However, project managers should know about their project’s critical path, especially if there are lots of dependent tasks and the dates are a challenge. Critical path method (CPM) has its roots in the US Navy back in the 1950s.

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How to Improve Demand Planning

LiquidPlanner

Forecasters now believe this downward trend may continue, so they don’t order as many paper products as before, and now another shortage ensues. But how can we forecast a new scenario at the beginning of a new product or process? Now we see the “bullwhip” effect. Let’s find out by using an example in LiquidPlanner. About the Author.

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5 Insane Project Management Techniques in Today’s Market

nTask

However, you may not have heard of some other PM techniques, such as, but not limited to Extreme Project Management , Rational Unified Process , and vice versa. RUP – Rational Unified Process: RUP is an alternate form of Waterfall. Researchers have also developed AUP; Agile Unified Process , which is a different form of RUP.

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Becoming a Successful Project Manager: 5 Tips to Achieve Professional Goals and Objectives

Epicflow Blog

It also requires proper coordination of people and processes, the art of effective communication and interaction, and strategic thinking. . Keeping track of all project processes makes it possible to timely detect any issues in the workflow and take necessary actions to minimize their negative consequences.

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow Blog

When buffers are made visible, trust is crucial; without it, their presence can reinforce negative stereotypes, painting them as budget inflators rather than strategic tools. However, when implementing a buffer management system, a single focus on individual projects or processes can be short-sighted.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

Fintech is accelerating this trend. In the process of this development, Agilists hijacked a few techniques and presented them as their own. Critical Path, Resource Critical Path, Critical Chain, Earned Value, Earned Work, etc.) Banks have essentially been software developing organizations for a long time.

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Multi-Project Management: All You Should Know About

Epicflow Blog

The more projects you have, the more complicated the process is. Budget issues. 40% of the surveyed note that projects are never completed on budget, . There must be some tips to make the management process in the multi-project environment easier and more effective. Critical Chain. Critical Path.