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Business Project Management Basics

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Remember, a project is defined as time-bound that delivers a product or service. Strategic Projects A strategic project is new and tends to be innovative, such as a new product or service, though it could also be the opening of a new retail location, factory or branch office for the business. Let’s take a moment to review them.

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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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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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Exploring the differences: Projects vs operations examples

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Let’s say you work for a clothing retailer. In other words, the parts of the business that keep the lights on. This includes both the ‘front-line’ services and the ‘behind-the-scenes’ services.

Retail 411
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How to Manage a Residential Construction Project

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We’ll also define the key areas of residential construction and how residential construction differs from commercial construction. Residential construction is defined as the construction, alteration or repair of single-family and multi-family dwellings. What Is Residential Construction?

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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. If not, you’re going to risk scope creep.

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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.