ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

When a contractor bids on a project or a manufacturer takes on a job, they need to have an accurate forecast of the price for the project to make a profit, which is why job costing is so important. Job costing is a type of accounting method that helps identify project costs and track them to keep to your budget.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. As a project manager, it’s important to understand the difference between kanban and scrum so you can determine the best approach for your team. What Is Kanban?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Finally, we’ll offer links to a few free construction project management templates to help manage industrial construction projects. That is, industrial construction refers to the building of structures for a business that manufactures goods. ProjectManager’s Gantt chart helps you manage your industrial construction projects.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Workload analysis is how project managers figure out how many team members they will need to properly execute a project. Workload tracking helps project managers reallocate team members as needed to serve the project and not overburden any one member of the project team. What Is Workload Analysis?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

When you’re a PMP, program manager or portfolio manager, you need to deliver all those multiple projects on time and within budget. This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. This is done by using a project management maturity model. What Is Project Management Maturity?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Gantt charts have been a fundamental project management tool for over a century, and it’s easy to understand why. We’ll show you how to make a Gantt chart in ProjectManager and why construction Gantt charts help deliver projects on time and within budget. Construction Gantt charts are versatile project management tools.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

Project management is a growing industry and one that offers great opportunities for people of all skills and experience. It is a discipline that is used across industries as varied as construction, manufacturing and IT to healthcare, professional services and government. Here are some of the more common project management roles.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 27, 2023

It can be used to communicate what’s needed in the project, the costs associated with the activities and the management of payments. But what is a schedule of values and why is it such an essential construction project management document? ProjectManager’s Gantt charts manage your human and nonhuman resources.

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Epicflow Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

How can manufacturers ensure the successful delivery of their complex projects under conditions of increasing uncertainty and a lack of required human resources? The solution lies in intelligent project and resource management. Increased use of technologies and related risks Industry 4.0

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Construction project management relies on good planning, experienced contractors and powerful construction project management software. While Procore is a known name in construction project management, many construction managers are looking for a Procore alternative. Procore falls short in many ways.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2023

The best things in life are free, but manufacturing goods cost money. Finally, learn how project management software can track the cost of production to help you control it in your production line. Cost of production reflects all the costs that a business pays that are associated with manufacturing a product or providing a service.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 20, 2023

Construction submittals are an integral part of construction project management. That’s why most general contractors use construction project management software when managing their projects and controlling construction submittals. It’s essential to verify that the right products were included in the installation.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Therefore, project management software is used to streamline the process and deliver quality without overspending or extending the production time. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that helps to plan, manage and track the production process. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 7, 2023

Manufacturing a product or constructing a building is a complicated process, which in turn makes determining the price for that product equally difficult to discern. There are many factors that must be considered, and project managers use a cost breakdown structure to help them determine the cost of that product.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 12, 2023

There are many project management software products available on the market. Oracle Primavera Cloud (OPC) is a project, program and portfolio management software. The software integrates project and portfolio planning with teams, resourcing and risk management as well as scheduling.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2023

There’s more than one way to manage a construction project. From the world of manufacturing comes an approach called lean construction. But lean manufacturing and lean construction are two different things. Lean construction adopts the principles and practices of lean manufacturing and applies them to building processes.

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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. One way to achieve these goals is through operations management. Learn what operations management is and its key functions.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Having many projects to manage in a portfolio can be daunting. 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. This will give you an idea if it’s the right strategy to execute your portfolio management.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

However, in project management, project assumptions are essential for planning a project. Let’s take a look at how project assumptions are defined in project management and why they’re so important. Then we’ll learn about a project assumption log and how assumptions differ from constraints and risk.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2021

Aggregate planning is a method for analyzing, developing and maintaining a manufacturing plan with an emphasis on uninterrupted, consistent production. Aggregate planning is most often focused on targeted sales forecasts, inventory management and production levels in the mid-term (3-to-18-month) future. Resource Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 29, 2021

Risks matter. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. However, at the beginning of your project when your risk log is empty, it can be a bit of a challenge to think of all the stuff that might need to go on there.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

That’s what procurement management is all about. What Is Procurement Management? Procurement management refers to all the actions and strategies related to the cycle of identifying, evaluating and selecting suppliers of production inputs. ProjectManager helps you manage all aspects of your project, including procurement.

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The Lazy Project Manager

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Project Business is an industry just like Retail and Manufacturing because projects are their primary business function. The same goes for a Manufacturing Business. It doesn’t matter what products you make, if you manufacture it, you are a Manufacturing Business. It doesn’t matter what goods you sell. They’re not.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Teamhood is a Kanban project management system for teams. It’s a visual, flexible tool that is perfect for small and medium businesses who want to improve how they manage projects. In my experience, those companies are proactive, project-led businesses like agencies, engineering, software and manufacturing firms. Managing items.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 15, 2023

Every process is important to construction project management, especially construction engineering. We’ll then explore the different roles related to construction engineering management. Construction engineering is the process of overseeing and managing a large-scale and complex construction project.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The world of project management is vast. But the common thread tying this diverse discipline together are the techniques that project managers use to get the job done. Project management techniques make managing projects easier and more effective. There are many project management techniques to choose from.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Marketing plans manage research, design and copywriting, digital and print production, plus so much more. These separate departments all have to work together, sticking to a shared schedule and budget. Managing all those marketing assets is challenging. We have dozens of free project management templates to choose from.

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Techno-PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As supply chain companies mature with budding scopes and complexity, supply chain risk management becomes inevitable in mitigating unexpected disruptions. What Is Supply Chain Risk Management? Supply chain risk management is a technique aimed at strategising, reassessing, and mitigating risks involved in the supply chain.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 18, 2023

Crashing is a project management technique used to reduce the total duration of a project by adding additional resources or making other changes. If your project budget is as stretched as your time, your sponsor is going to have to make a difficult call: is there money available to pay for the extra help? First up: crashing.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Resources can be impacted by all three of those constraints and therefore require a method to control them—sometimes even a resource management software. In project management, the resource breakdown structure (RBS) is a tool to help with planning and controlling project work. One such orbit is resources. Who Makes It? When Is It Made?

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Planio

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Ask a hundred project managers what one of their biggest sources of frustration is and at least half will tell you some variation of the same theme: resource allocation. If the bricks are in high demand, the manufacturer might raise the price, causing you to exceed your budget. And often, there aren’t enough to go around.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 17, 2023

ProjectManager is more than great project management software, it’s a depository of dozens of free Word and Excel templates for business that you can download right now. It’s good for them and it’s good for managers to track time spent on tasks. Project Budget Template. Making an accurate forecast for a budget is hard.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 14, 2023

To deliver goods to market on time, manufacturing teams have to consider the supply chain, inventory management, resource planning and production planning, to name a few. Managing this juggling act requires production scheduling software that’s flexible and powerful. What Is Production Scheduling Software?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 24, 2022

By the time a product shows up on the shelf, it’s been through a much longer journey called the manufacturing cycle. Each product is manufactured from raw materials that need to be procured before the product hits the market. The manufacturing cycle is an essential part of all types of manufacturing. Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 28, 2023

Manufacturers need to have a process by which to make or assemble their products. This is an important step before manufacturing and must be thoroughly understood. Then find out the steps to process planning and see what a manufacturing process plan is and why it’s beneficial to production. What Is Process Planning?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 13, 2022

Projects need management. Much of the focus of project management is obviously on methodologies that keep your project on time and within budget. The project selection process, whether you’re working in project management or portfolio management, ensures you have enough resources to benefit from the investment.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Paul Boos has a post about estimating and makes a case for the Principles of when NOT to estimate. This struck a cord around a bigger topic - the inversion of estimating. When should we NOT estimate? Then on to the original conjecture for No Estimates from Paul's post. That is, to make decision with “No estimates”.

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