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Logistics Management 101: A Beginner’s Guide

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Managing that work process is called logistics management. Without logistics management, the many phases of any product will quickly fall into a chaotic mess. If you’re not familiar with logistics management, don’t panic. What Is Logistics Management? Logistics management is a subset of the larger supply chain management.

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What is Project Life Cycle and What Are its Phases

ProProfs Project Management

You’ve probably heard about the project life cycle, and here we’ll be taking a closer look at this topic. . What is Project Life Cycle. Right from smaller investments to multi-million dollar projects, it requires specific and strict plans that everyone in the team should stick to. .

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How to Make a Risk Management Plan

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You identify them, record them, monitor them and plan for them: risks are an inherent part of every project. Some risks are bound to become problem areas—like executing a project over the holidays and having to plan the project timeline around them. But first, what is risk management? Identify Risks.

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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This category relates to the various project management logs and registers we have as part of the daily management of the process. Assumption log Risk register Backlog (see, agile project artifacts are relevant too) Stakeholder register. They will be updated throughout the project. You can grab the set I use here.

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Some examples of the project delivery artifacts that fall into this category that I use to manage my own projects at work include: Assumption log Actions log Decision log Risk register Issue log Change log Backlog (see, agile project artifacts are relevant too) Stakeholder register These documents represent a set of continuously evolving documents.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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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. That hasn’t stopped practitioners from using scrum in varying industries, from retail logistics to event planning. First off, it’s that scrum master.

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What is Project Management

MPUG

The PMI also notes that a project is typically different from ongoing operations or business as usual and that it requires the coordination of various resources and activities in order to achieve its objectives. From start to finish, a project usually goes through 5 phases, called the Project Life Cycle.