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How to Improve Demand Planning

LiquidPlanner

Forecasters now believe this downward trend may continue, so they don’t order as many paper products as before, and now another shortage ensues. But how can we forecast a new scenario at the beginning of a new product or process? Now we see the “bullwhip” effect. Let’s find out by using an example in LiquidPlanner.

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5 Insane Project Management Techniques in Today’s Market

nTask

However, you may not have heard of some other PM techniques, such as, but not limited to Extreme Project Management , Rational Unified Process , and vice versa. RUP – Rational Unified Process: RUP is an alternate form of Waterfall. Researchers have also developed AUP; Agile Unified Process , which is a different form of RUP.

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Becoming a Successful Project Manager: 5 Tips to Achieve Professional Goals and Objectives

Epicflow Blog

It also requires proper coordination of people and processes, the art of effective communication and interaction, and strategic thinking. . Keeping track of all project processes makes it possible to timely detect any issues in the workflow and take necessary actions to minimize their negative consequences.

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Multi-Project Management: All You Should Know About

Epicflow Blog

The more projects you have, the more complicated the process is. There must be some tips to make the management process in the multi-project environment easier and more effective. Critical Chain. Critical Path. The ability to control all the projects in the company is called multi-project management. .

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Level up your project schedules: 5 advanced techniques

Rebel’s Guide to PM

However, project managers should know about their project’s critical path, especially if there are lots of dependent tasks and the dates are a challenge. Critical path method (CPM) has its roots in the US Navy back in the 1950s. Life is too short to try to work this stuff out by hand.

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Top 12 Most Relevant Project Management Books You Need to Read

ActiveCollab

shows how different roles should collaborate, and explains how to set up processes. In the book, you’ll learn: how cubicles, dress code, and hiring policies impact productivity; dangers of constant overtime; the stupidity of motivational posters; the side effects of process improvement programs; the real costs of turnover….

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Top 12 Most Relevant Project Management Books You Need to Read

ActiveCollab

shows how different roles should collaborate, and explains how to approach different project management processes. The Goal / Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. They teach important project management concepts - theory of constraints and critical chain - through story. Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro.