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Lean Construction Principles & Best Practices

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From the world of manufacturing comes an approach called lean construction. But lean manufacturing and lean construction are two different things. Let’s explore lean construction, defining what it is and its key principles. What Is Lean Construction? ProjectManager has Gantt charts to manage your lean construction.

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What Is Lean Portfolio Management? A Quick Guide

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There are many ways to do this and one of which is lean portfolio management. Let’s first define lean portfolio management and then delve into how it works. We’ll also explain when to use lean portfolio management and how project management software can help you manage your portfolios better. What Is Lean Portfolio Management?

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Shop Floor Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control

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Download this free capacity planning template for Excel to reduce stockouts and identify inefficiencies in your manufacturing processes to increase delivery capacity. To do this, a shop floor manager must first have well-defined and quantifiable metrics to measure the work to ensure it’s on schedule and within budget.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. Download Excel File Scrum vs. Kanban In-Depth Comparison Many similarities between scrum and kanban make them evenly matched. What Is Kanban?

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How to Improve the Warehouse Operations of Your Organization

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Download Excel File Packing Once picked, the goods must be packaged. Use Kanban Pull System for Inventory Management Kanban pull system is ideally suited for warehouse operations because of its lean approach similar to just-in-time stock control. It means that work starts only when the customer submits a purchase order.

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Lean portfolio management

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The lean portfolio management is a new way to look at the old problem of balancing cost vs. value in product development projects. The use of Lean portfolio management agile has exploded in the last decade as more and more companies have found that it is a powerful tool for structuring their product development processes.

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Lean Portfolio Management Operations: An Agile Approach

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This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management for the enterprise. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading: Part 1: What is Lean Portfolio Management? Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding. Didn’t we just say that a centralized PMO undermined LPM?

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