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Total Productive Maintenance Essentials: 8 Things You Need to Know About TPM

ProjectManager.com

All of your resources need to be in top form to achieve the goals and objectives of your work. When it comes to equipment, there’s an approach to this called total productive maintenance (TPM). Total productive maintenance helps you achieve equipment reliability and keeps your machines always working at their best. Whether you’re a project manager, facility manager or part of a maintenance team, you need to know what TPM is and employ it keep your business productive.

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Product Development with the Stage-Gate® Process (Part 3): Procedure and Structure

Inloox

In the last parts of our blog series on innovation management with the Stage-Gate® process, we looked at the basics such as the definition, strengths and weaknesses, and the basic principles. In this article - the third part - we dive even deeper and look at the basic structure as well as exemplary the idea-to-launch model, which structures and accompanies projects from the idea to the market launch.

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5 Steps to Build Confidence in Your Team Members

LiquidPlanner

In a previous post, 5 Tips to Build Confidence in Yourself As a Project Manager , we looked at how to build confidence in ourselves. In this updated post, we change the focus and look at how to build confidence in your team. As project management professionals, one of our most important roles is to bring out the best in our team. This includes not just building a great team, but encouraging collaboration and empowering people around us.

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A Comprehensive Guide on Creating a Project Execution Plan in 2022

nTask

Every day we get to see a lot of excellent ideas surfacing in the market. They are brilliant and insightful, and they show a lot of promise regarding the future of the projects of the company they belong to. But what if they just stay as words and are not put into action by the company? As you know that coming up with a brilliant and innovative idea is hard but it is still easier than actually executing that idea.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Scrum 101: An Introduction to the World of Scrum Project Management

Agilemania

Scrum is a lightweight agile framework that encourages team members to work on a problem together. It helps teams to gather knowledge from experience and learn self-organization through working on an issue. . Scrum is based on Empiricism, which means knowledge comes from experience. Scrum encourages teams to improve by reflecting on their success and losses. .

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The Best Tech Solutions for Better Project Management & Collaboration

Project Smart

If you have ever managed a project, you know it's no walk in the park. Achieving productive and harmonious cooperation amongst members of your team is never easy, and there's one thing that's absolutely required for things to work perfectly: effective teamwork. But for that to happen, you must leverage the right tools to energise your team and manage the project at hand.

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Welcoming Uncertainty with Self-awareness

PM Times

Everyone confronts fear. Either they maintain clear-minded focus or react with denial or panic. Individuals, teams, and organizations perpetuate dysfunctional policies and procedures because they are afraid to open Pandora’s Box of transformative change. “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is […].

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Bottom-Up Estimating in Project Management: A Guide

Wrike

Need help creating the most accurate project forecast of all time? Look no further than bottom-up estimating. Bottom-up estimating in project management is a method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). In this article, we’ll dive deep into what bottom-up estimating is, the pros and cons of bottom-up estimating, and how it differs from a ‘top-up’ estimating approach.

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[PODCAST] +50agility episode #5 with Steve Porter

Scrum.org

Hi everyone! The new podcast episode is out, this time featuring Steve Porter as a guest. We are talking about tought but fair exams, origins of the Nexus framework, complexity behind scaling Scrum and much more. Hope you'll enjoy listening to it and find it useful. Feel free to check previous episodes as well.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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8 Resource Management Challenges That Every PM Needs to Know

nTask

You’d agree with me that a company’s biggest asset is its resources. However, no matter the size of it, resource management challenges are natural to occur. Keeping a perfect balance between your team members and the back-to-back projects can be a hustle. Most of the time we end up leaving unsatisfied and unhappy employees. Consequently, this greatly affects the success rate of the project and the growth of the company.

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Product Development with the Stage-Gate® Process (Part 2): Strengths, Weaknesses, Pitfalls

Inloox

The Stage-Gate® process is a process model for the targeted development of innovations - for example, in the form of products and services. In the first part of this blog series, we looked at the definition and basic principles of the method according to Robert G. Cooper. In the second part, we now dive deeper into the strengths and weaknesses of the Stage-Gate® process as well as potential pitfalls and responsibilities.

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Setting up and using 2-Factor Authentication (2FA)

Dotto Tech

SUBSCRIBE TO DOTTO TECH YOUTUBE CHANNEL GO Two-Factor Authentication is one of the best ways we can easily protect our accounts. The good news is, it is easy to set it up using Google Authenticator, Lastpass Authenticator or any other Authenticator App. They all work in a similar fashion. One lesson I learned the hard way, is, before you upgrade your phone, be sure to export your Two-Factor settings to the new phone before you erase your old phone!

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How to move from Redmine to Planio in 3 steps (and why you should)

Planio

When you’re responsible for the smooth operation of in-house development and ERP and IT requirements for an industry-leading, international organization, a proper project management tool is a must-have. Yet after years of running and maintaining Redmine at Marbach Group , ERP manager Jan Niggemann was ready for a change. But changing software is never easy - especially when it’s the project management tool you use to keep your team organized and focused.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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Product Development with the Stage-Gate® Process (Part 1): Definition and Basic Principles

Inloox

Content. Definition. Basic principles. One of the greatest challenges that companies are facing is the continuous development of new products and services. Only with innovations competitiveness can be secured and market share increased. Innovative strength is therefore an important competitive advantage. But, of course, creating innovations is not easy and brings several challenges: The entire process as well as targeted output are characterized by high uncertainty and risks.

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