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Why Identifying as a Project Business is Critical For Success

The Lazy Project Manager

Project Business is an industry just like Retail and Manufacturing because projects are their primary business function. For example, if we think of a Retail Business, it’s about reselling goods to consumers. Whatever it is, if you sell it to consumers, you are a Retail Business. It doesn’t matter what goods you sell.

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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. Typically, a business is likely to have Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, and any other functions specific to its purpose.

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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Whether you love retail or catering, tech or medicine, there will be a project management job in that field. And if you’re keen to work on large projects in a slightly Finance-y role, then this could be a good job for you. Agile marketing , for example, is a specialist way to apply agile methods to marketing projects.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

That hasn’t stopped practitioners from using scrum in varying industries, from retail logistics to event planning. While scrum has been scaled to apply to bigger projects and organizations, its roots are in agile software development and has come to work seamlessly in that smaller, nimble environment.

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The 3 Steps to Take When Failure is Not an Option

Rebel’s Guide to PM

His experiences in executive leadership within the military and at Afterburner have helped him accelerate business execution performance for Fortune 100 companies within all industries including tech, pharmaceuticals, finance, retail apparel and several NFL teams. A version of this article first appeared in 2017.

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Industrial Construction: Examples of Industrial Projects

ProjectManager.com

For example, commercial construction can be classified into three subcategories of retail, office, multifamily and industrial construction. Mining Facilities There are three main components to constructing a mining facility: good management, financing and a technically sound and economically feasible deposit.

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Project Budgeting: An Interview with Sol Benady

Rebel’s Guide to PM

He started his career as an auditor in London, trained with E&Y where he qualified as an accountant, and then moved into consulting for retail and investment banking for a wide range of projects and clients. Sol Benady is a management consultant, Fintech entrepreneur, and program manager working in the banking sector.

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