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Exploring the differences: Projects vs operations examples

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ops managers want (and seek) stability so they can manage process performance. For example, in the UK, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority manages projects and shares best practices for UK government projects. In the United States, the Government Accountability Office publishes regular reports into major projects.

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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A Legal Project Manager supports legal teams to deliver either process improvements and internally-facing work, or legal projects for clients. Whether you love retail or catering, tech or medicine, there will be a project management job in that field. This role tends to require a legal background and training.

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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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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. The scrum master is the team expert on the process, and they are instrumental in guiding the team to optimize the use of scrum in the project.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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The name is apt, as the waterfall methodology is a process in which the phases of the project flow downward. When implementing the agile methodology , project planning and work management are adaptive, evolutionary in development, seeking early delivery and are always open to change if that leads to process improvement.

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Business Project Management Basics

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Business project management is the process by which internal business projects are streamlined and aligned with business strategies and objectives. Compliance Projects A compliance project, as the name suggests, is done to keep a business in compliance with an industry or government regulation or standard.

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Top 11 Cities for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s going to be a mix of retail, office and residential units along with a hotel. The Australian government has granted two initiatives close to Brisbane major project status. Over A$10bn has been committed by the Australian government to fund the upgrades. Source: PMI; figures relate to country).