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10 Free Manufacturing Excel Templates

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Manufacturing requires a lot of attention to detail and coordinating various moving parts to deliver the final product. In order to accomplish those goals and meet a tight deadline and an even tighter budget, you need these 10 free manufacturing Excel templates. ProjectManager has dozens of free templates to download.

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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

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Risks matter. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. However, at the beginning of your project when your risk log is empty, it can be a bit of a challenge to think of all the stuff that might need to go on there.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. If not, you’re going to risk scope creep. What Is Kanban?

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How to Start a Project Management Career

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It is a discipline that is used across industries as varied as construction, manufacturing and IT to healthcare, professional services and government. They develop strategies, develop IT risk management plans and maintain schedules and budgets. They also work towards reducing risk and provide status reports to clients.

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Strategic Project Management: Planning Strategic Projects

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The project that develops, manufactures and delivers that new product is strategic, even though it has its own unique goals. Examples of Strategic Projects Let’s imagine a highly successful manufacturing business that has two key strategic objectives outlined in its strategic plan. But some projects are what is called operational.

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10 Best Procore Alternatives of 2024 (Free + Paid)

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Subpar bidding tool: Users find Procore’s bidding and estimating functionality problematic, which has been brought to the attention of the software. Add to this, risk management features that help identify, manage and track issues and ProjectManager deserves our top ranking for Procore alternatives. Capterra review: 4.7

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What Is Lean Portfolio Management? A Quick Guide

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Lean portfolio management is a process by which strategy is aligned with execution using a lean approach and agile portfolio operations and governance. Things to think about are the timeline for manufacturing and delivering a product , its price and requirements or expectations to meet. This requires accurate estimates of resources.

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