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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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Streamlining Success: Lean Principles in Project Management

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First, our last article touched on waste in the context of lean. Second, I am the father of a recent engineering graduate who is now working as an engineer, and part of the onboarding was a class on lean. Engineers use specifications to define and constrain the product or system under development and to be manufactured.

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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. For one, both are ideal for lean and agile projects, limiting work in process and favoring a continuous scheduling flow as opposed to pushing through a schedule. What Is Kanban?

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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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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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The Kanban methodology helps reduce inefficiencies, and is a great project management tool for many purposes such as lean manufacturing or agile projects. The car company applied it to their lean manufacturing model, known as the Toyota production system. Lean Methodology. Processes can be defined and improved.

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Continuous Improvement: A Quick Guide

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Shewhart, an American physicist, engineer and statistician, for the idea. His work would inspire methodologies such as just-in-time manufacturing (JIT) , lean manufacturing and kaizen. Incremental Change Is Cheap: Small changes are likely not as costly and will not impact the budget severely.

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6 Top Project Management Books for Engineers and Manufacturers

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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.