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Product Manager vs Project Manager – What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Of course, these roles can also vary greatly depending on the types of products or projects being executed in the organization. For example, manufacturing product managers are responsible for tangible products, while software development product managers will have different teams and agile workflows to assist in the software product launch.

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How to Solve the 5 Top Challenges of Manufacturing Projects

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When you work through manufacturing projects, you face some unique challenges, often with a lot at stake. In some cases, the entire project might be following a process where design, scope, cost, and time scales were fixed at the very beginning. Encourage teams to estimate their projects as realistically as possible.

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How to Solve the 5 Top Challenges of Manufacturing Projects

LiquidPlanner

When you work on a manufacturing project , you face some unique challenges, often with a lot at stake. Here, we’re going to look at some of the challenges specific to project teams working in the manufacturing industry—and how to solve these problems using project management practices and a dynamic tool.

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What is Project Management?

The IIL Blog

Once completed, of course, the Panama Canal became operational, and once developed, the Boeing 787 went into service with many more being manufactured as I write this. In short, the design and construction of the Panama Canal, and the design and manufacture of the Boeing 787 were projects. That’s called Project Management.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. Risk Management Papers. “A 3, March 2002.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Just the links below to jump to the right project management term: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W. Accept: A response to a project risk where the project manager accepts the risk and takes no action to evade it, i.e. 'accepting' the risk. A project sponsor can request an audit.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?