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Free Timesheet Template for Google Sheets: Track Labor Costs Online

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From construction to manufacturing and retail, this Google Sheets timesheet template can help organizations of any industry streamline their time tracking and payroll process of their hourly employees. Shift Information: Once you’ve defined a day and date, you can enter information about the work shift for your employee.

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Exploring the differences: Projects vs operations examples

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Let’s say you work for a clothing retailer. Even if you aren’t using a formal lifecycle or specific methodology, you’ll still be planning, executing, controlling, and monitoring tasks in order to meet objectives – that’s project management. In other words, the parts of the business that keep the lights on.

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Production Scheduling Basics: Creating a Production Schedule

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We’ll define both production scheduling and a production schedule and define what production scheduling is not. It can automate certain activities to streamline work and define employees’ availability to make it easier to assign them to jobs. If you don’t have the materials, you can’t manufacture a product.

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The 3 Steps to Take When Failure is Not an Option

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Impeccable means that you operate within the clearly defined constraints of mission success. However, impeccable execution is not impossible as long as we have clearly defined our definition of success, identify errors early, and iterate quickly to avoid making the same mistake twice and to scale best practices.

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Project Management Job Titles: Understanding the Types of Roles in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project managers work on things that have a beginning, a middle and an end, with a defined end result. The most common way of defining different types of project manager is by industry. Whether you love retail or catering, tech or medicine, there will be a project management job in that field. That’s what a project is.

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Production vs. Manufacturing: Key Differences

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Of course, it’s not a competition between the two as we’ll see when we define each term and then explain the differences between production and manufacturing. Production is defined as inputs and outputs; inputs are the resources used to make goods or services and output is the final product of those inputs.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Scrum is a project management framework with well-defined roles, guidelines and procedures that ensure this methodology is implemented consistently. That hasn’t stopped practitioners from using scrum in varying industries, from retail logistics to event planning. What Is the Difference Between Scrum and Kanban?

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