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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. Learn more.

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Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding

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This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading part one first, “ What is Lean Portfolio Management ,” which you can find here . In this post, we’ll discuss a fundamental component of Lean portfolio management: funding. This is where Lean budgeting comes in.

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The 5 Lean Principles: Definitions & How to Use Them

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Lean management originated in Japan, where it grew out of the Toyota Production System. This led to lean manufacturing, but today lean is used in more industries, such as project management, software development, construction and more. Lean principles come from the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), where founders James P.

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Runn Software Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s resource planning software that is perfect for professional services and firms that would benefit from the transparency of seeing where time is being spent. And if you can’t simply lean over the desk to ask Fred if he’s free next week to do something new, it’s hard. We need to know when the right people are available.

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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. If you’d like to use kanban boards for managing tasks, projects or workflows you’ll need project management software like ProjectManager. What Is Kanban?

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Best Task Management Software of 2021 for Teams

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Teams use task management software to execute tasks on time, within budget and with the right resources. But there are a lot of task management software solutions to choose from, and it can be hard to know which is the best. What Is Task Management Software? So, what’s the best task management software?