ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

He’s considered the father of the Toyota Production System, which was what it was first called. Kanban Origin: Toyota Kanban System This kanban system was called the Toyota kanban system, though it was originally referred to as just-in-time (JIT) production. Plus, we’ll get into scrumban, a combination of kanban with scrum.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

You can add a lot more professional detail about your experience and career history than social sites like Facebook or X (I still call it Twitter). You can add a lot more professional detail about your experience and career history than social sites like Facebook or X (I still call it Twitter). it can do a lot more for you than that.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 14, 2021

You get a call (or more likely an email) requesting that you do something immediately or within an impossibly short space of time. Many times, these requests feel more like orders — people demanding that you do things without giving a thought to what else you have on your plate. We’ve all been there. Ask them why. Find out why.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Oh, and it’s called a standup because you normally have the meeting while standing up! If you’re holding a remote standup, you don’t have to make your colleagues on the call stand up as that might mess with what you seen in the camera and their desk set up. So far so good, right? Not really.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Work orders are primarily used in the construction industry for service requests, but can also be used for products, inspections and audits. In manufacturing a work order is often called a sales order when a build or engineering is to take place. They’re the paper trail defining what needs to be done, by when and for how much.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 30, 2024

Yes, there is a drive to get more people back in the office: the great power shift is seeing the presence of more and more employees being requested back in the office, but spending at least some of your week in the spare room or at the kitchen table is here to stay. That makes most of us remote for at least some of the time.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 3, 2024

That’s called order fulfillment. The customer could have previously communicated with the vendor through a request for quote (RFQ) , which asks for a quote before submitting a purchase order, but this is not always the case. Products go through many processes before they reach a customer. It ends with their receipt of that order.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Information technology (IT) runs most businesses. It’s hard to imagine a company without an IT department. But those devices don’t run for free. Managing information costs and managing information security for those costs are part of making an IT budget. What Is an IT Budget? That spending can come from a range of sources.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

However, now that there are calls for office workers to hit their desks again, we have to consider if that’s the life we want. I’m pretty sure that my first request for flexible working was turned down because of the perceived negative impact on my team members (not that I think my manager at the time asked them). It just happened.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 30, 2024

Founded by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein when they met as employees at Facebook, they started with a productivity tool called Tasks and left Facebook to launch Asana in 2012. Work request tracking: It standardizes intake requests and that helps with cross-team work. That’s fair. What Is Asana? What Is Asana Used For?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It's a call to action for leadership to step in, reassess, and make the necessary changes to support the business's goals. It's a call to action for leadership to step in, reassess, and make the necessary changes to support the business's goals. We often believe that by simply selecting the right tool, 90% of our job is done.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 18, 2023

In order for those surprises to impact the construction plan as minimally as possible, the industry uses something called a construction change order. However, construction change orders are not simply demanded but requested. Other construction change orders delete rather than add, which are called deductive change orders.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

That’s why there are so many project meetings and each has its own focus and importance. Let’s take a look at 10 different types of project management meetings and define them, and we’ll start with the definition of what a project meeting is. What Are Project Meetings? It all depends on the urgency and type of meeting being held.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 30, 2022

I had a mentor and a supportive manager, as well as a great team around me and an amazing IT team leader called Jo whose department was building the thing. Learn the skills you really need to juggle all your work! There’s another project I’m just waiting to hear about,” said my sponsor. I silently groaned. But that’s a different story.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Trello vs. Asana is a likely matchup for anyone looking for the right project management software. They’re both well-known and popular project management tools. Trello is often thought of as the go-to for kanban boards, which visualize workflow. Asana, on the other hand, is a simple-to-use work management tool. What Is Trello?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 10, 2021

The process of soliciting bids from third-party vendors and contractors is done through a document called a request for proposal or, more commonly, an RFP. There are so many different types of request forms that it can get a bit confusing differentiating between them. Try our software for free today! What is an RFP?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 3, 2022

Many people return to work part-time after maternity leave, so if this is a consideration for you, get your request for flexible working in as early as you can. This gives your manager plenty of time to review your case and make a decision about whether they can support your request for flexible working. Arrange a handover.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

Decision gates are part of empowering decision-making and ensuring the right people make the call as to whether a project progresses (or is closed). You might hear them called stage gates, decision gates, toll gates, phase gates, gateway reviews, or just gates. Ready to find out more about this helpful governance technique?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2021

They discuss each request and assign a number from the Fibonacci scale that correlates to the overall size. They discuss each request and assign a number from the Fibonacci scale that correlates to the overall size. They use everything they understand about the request at that point in time and what is expected to call it complete.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

They generally have to request approvals even for smaller sums.” And if there is such a disconnect between what is in written in project management standards and how it gets practiced in the real world, should we continue to call it “standard”? (If

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

But who makes the decision on the quantity of output and how that information is delivered is processed through what’s called a production order. First, let’s define what a production order is and why it’s so important to the manufacturing process. We’ll also throw in some free production planning templates. What Is a Production Order?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 26, 2021

A request for quote (FRQ) is part of that process with the request for proposal (RFP) and request for information (RFI). A Request for Quote (RFI), sometimes called a request for quotation or an invitation for bid (IFB), is part of the process of securing procurements for a project. What Is an RFQ?

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 21, 2021

Level of effort (LOE) is a project management term that refers to a specific type of project activity called support activities. Stakeholder management includes sending regular updates, scheduling meetings, hosting calls, creating documents, etc. Support activities do not yield deliverables, but rather fuel tasks that do. Try It Free!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Whether the request comes about as a result of an informal discussion or a formal corporate scheme, you should take the commitment to be a mentor seriously. It might sound a bit daunting, but I’ve been doing it for over 15 years, and I’m here to tell you that it’s a great opportunity (for both of you). Who are you mentoring?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

One of my clients had a platform called the “Internet channel” that was intended to increase user conversion and usability. And just like a busy kitchen, the Internet channel group got many many requests, slowing down the development process. It was like a traffic jam, with too many requests trying to get through at once.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 21, 2021

I had a mentor and a supportive manager, as well as a great team around me and an amazing IT team leader called Jo whose department was building the thing. I’m running a webinar on the skills you need to manage multiple projects on 4 February. Register here. There’s another project I’m just waiting to hear about,” said my sponsor.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A service level agreement, often abbreviated as SLA, is used in IT and professional services to define what a vendor is expected to do. It’s part of the contract between any technology vendor and sets up what will be levied upon them if the agreement isn’t upheld. What Is a Service Level Agreement (SLA)?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

Project management is all about solving problems before they happen. That’s why you make a plan, schedule tasks and monitor the work to make sure you’re staying on track. But even the best planning isn’t going to avoid challenges throughout the project. Let’s look at 15 project management challenges and how to deal with them.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. Projects can be a hotbed of conflict.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 24, 2022

Preprocessing time is also called planning time. It speaks to the time it takes to receive a request for replenishment or the development of a project. It takes time to understand the request and create a purchase order if you’re buying something or creating a job. Projects are all about delivering a product or service.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 24, 2022

Deadlines on my projects change frequently for lots of reasons, including last minute requests from clients. Prepare for a conference call. I put my headphones on to join a MS Teams call. I thought I’d share my daily routine to show you how I do it. It’s a Friday. The morning. Wake up at 5.30 am when the children wake up.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

Let me tell you about a project decision that was awkward for me — then I’ll share some tips on how to do decision-making better. We were due to go live with our pilot software launch but things didn’t feel right. We had the go/no go meeting and as I sat in the office, it just felt like we weren’t ready. He sent a photo. It was bad.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Bob’s manager, Sally, and his cubicle neighbor, Jim, are both aware of the space heater and the fact that its usage is not permitted, but are unwilling to request that Bob remove it. In an extreme situation, if Jim gets too frustrated he might even request a transfer to a different team. Throttling personal development.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2023

When changes are applied to the project, control procedures like change requests can help keep them from negatively impacting the schedule. Project monitoring and control is how a project manager ensures the plan they’re implementing with the project team goes off without a hitch. Earlier detection means earlier mitigation.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

They begin with the customers’ requests and end with fulfilling their needs. Recall a recent customer service call. By Alan Zucker Agile is a mindset described by a set of values and principles. It traces its roots to Lean, which is also foundational to other modern management theories. Toyota was a Lean pioneer. The roof is Value.

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MPUG

APRIL 18, 2024

The essence of change control is to subject every request for change – to specification, schedule, design, or scope – to robust scrutiny. A backlog is a list (usually structured by priority) of all the user requirements and requests. It is incumbent upon you to get your scope right during the definition stage.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2024

These are called the resource requirements. When a project is planned, a set of steps are outlined to deliver a product or service. Resource requirements need to be identified and allocated for those steps to be executed. Think of resource requirements as the fuel that drives all project activities. That’s a lot of variables.

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