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Critical Chain in Managing Multiple Projects

LiquidPlanner

Project management methods have evolved for centuries, from records at the Pyramid at Giza to rebuilding London churches after the Great Fire of London in 1666, to the Great Western Railway. The best-known modern methods of managing projects efficiently are: The Gantt chart developed by Henry Gantt in the 1910s . Why does this happen?

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6 Top Project Management Books for Engineers and Manufacturers

LiquidPlanner

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. Dr. Eliyahu M.

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What is Visual Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Today I’m interviewing Mark Woeppel, author of Visual Project Management. But what is visual project management? Mark, what is visual project management? Why do you think projects are still late and over budget when professional project management techniques have been around for years? Let’s talk about the unexpected.

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How to Improve Demand Planning

LiquidPlanner

There is a consensus among leaders and managers – supply chain problems are enormous, causing steep expense increases, loss of business opportunity, and customer frustrations. The most significant uncertainty risk in our supply chain example is at the docks. Optimizing Demand Planning . About the Author.

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The first thing you do to reduce risk.

Musings on Project Management

The first thing you do to reduce risk. This is a concept from System Engineering (buffers, dampers, redundancy; but also loose tolerances; fuses; barriers and walls. anything that inhibits propagation of effects) This is a concept from scheduling (Critical Chain by Goldratt;

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Know all about your project in one place with Gantt chart

Proofhub

A Project Management Beginner’s Guide To Gantt Charts in 2019 Beginnings tend to be intimidating. Here at ProofHub , whenever a new team member joins, I see them being doubtful about using a Gantt chart, looking at and managing these boxes, lines, and arrows scares them. Newbies always have a few questions in their minds.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

In this week’s episode, LeadingAgile Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens, sits down with Mike Cottmeyer to discuss Capability-based organizations, Systems of Delivery vs Systems of Transformation, managing dependencies, and more. – Talk about project management and things like that. – That’s right. – Yeah.

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