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Transport for London’s Signal Failure – £886m more than planned*

Ron Rosenhead

Horrible headlines and a horrible situation. The above costs come from a report published by Budget and Performance Committee of the London Assembly. Some of the statistics and comments in the report are astounding and some are below: · ….TfL

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Production Scheduling Basics: Creating a Production Schedule

ProjectManager.com

That means understanding how long production will take and the timeline to transport finished goods to distributors. Plant layout: This is important as the time it takes to transport materials and process them is part of the larger production schedule.

2023 279
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Which risks were realized for my campaign project?

Kiron Bondale

The city staff had provided multiple early voting dates, the ability for residents to vote at any of the eight polling stations across the city on election day, and free public transit access for residents who didn’t have transportation to get to a polling station.

2022 316
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Review: TeamHeadquarters IT Project Service Delivery Platform

Brad Egeland

TeamHeadquarters supports organizations in Healthcare, Municipal, Manufacturing, Education, and Transportation. TeamHeadquarters has a clean interface with simple navigation providing all the functions required to manage small and large projects effectively.

2022 180
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Reshoring – The Future of Supply Chains

Speaker: Rosemary Coates - Board Member & Founder at Reshoring Institute, Best-selling Author, Host of the Frictionless Supply Chain podcast

In this webinar, Reshoring Institute founder Rosemary Coates will teach you about the top supply chain trends going into 2023 and how your business can take steps to prevent disruptions.

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Review: TeamHeadquarters IT Project Service Platform

Brad Egeland

TeamHeadquarters supports organizations in Healthcare, Municipal, Manufacturing, Education, and Transportation. As part of my new Project Management related software review series, I am reviewing a great entry from Entry software - TeamHeadquarters.

2022 179
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Go slow (to go fast later)

Kiron Bondale

The January 2020 issue of PM Network provide a case study for one of the 2019 PMI Project of the Year finalists, the Société de transport de Montréal’s (STM) eight-year project to modernize the underground Montréal rail system.

2020 302
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How to Create an Event Budget

ProjectManager.com

Depending on where the event is, transportation and accommodations will be required. Producing an event, whether virtual, in-person or hybrid, is hard enough. Having to make an event budget adds another layer of stress.

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Construction Engineering: A Quick Guide With Definitions, Roles and More

ProjectManager.com

That might be structural, environmental or transportation engineering. Construction is a field with a lot of disciplines. After all, it takes a lot of different craftsmen, engineers and more to assemble a building, bridge or any safe and integral structure.

2023 221
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7 Tips for Better Time Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Track your work hours , how long your commute takes, how much time you spend on your computer, in your car, using public transportation, resting, socializing, working out etc.

2022 304
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20 Years & 20 Success Stories: InLoox Anniversary E-Book

Inloox

Transport and logistics. The hands-on success stories describe the challenges companies from various industries faced, how they structured their project management and which advantages they achieved by using InLoox.

2021 130
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The Frog Project: Saving wildlife one bucket at a time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This data is in turn shared with the European Network for the Protection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Transport Systems (ENPARTS) to inform ways of protecting wildlife across Europe. In 2012, Helen Mason stood outside her home and looked at the road.

2022 311
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Top 11 Cities for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

With more transport links moving underground, the plan is that in the next 10 years this old road becomes a planted walkway through the city. What are the top cities for project management in the world?

2020 421
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Chess and Business Strategy

International Institute for Learning

Entry into the market for large transport aircraft. Industrial policy in the transport aircraft industry. By Luigi Morsa, Ph.D. Undoubtedly the chess game is fascinating because it implies deep thinking, strategy, and prediction ability.

Strategy 110
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How to Make a CPM Schedule: CPM Scheduling Basics

ProjectManager.com

The critical path method is widely used in the transportation market, but it can apply to construction, aerospace and defense, software development, research, product development, engineering and plant maintenance projects, just to name a few. Project managers know the critical path.

2023 320
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Work = Life Priorities

International Institute for Learning

When there were significant events or meetings, I would alter my plans by getting a ride with a colleague or using public transportation. By Alan Zucker. Balancing our work and home lives is a challenge that nearly everyone faces.

2023 52
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How to Get Ready for Next Week

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There might be other things that could stop you: strike action on public transport, weather warnings, an important board meeting being rescheduled…anything. Sunday nights in this house are a buzz of activity. For me. Everyone else seems chilled out after the weekend.

2022 310
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Modularized megaprojects: What we can learn from Tesla (Part 2)

Inloox

However, the construction of the Madrid subway has shown that a modular approach can also be effective for complex megaprojects in transportation infrastructure.

2022 198
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Making your Scrum Events Lean – Identifying the Wastes

Scrum.org

Transport: Are updates transferred across different channels like email, boards, etc.? The new Scrum Guide 2020 mentions Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking. Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.”.

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Construction Budget: A Quick Guide (with Examples)

ProjectManager.com

Transportation can be another cost. Construction projects will never get off the ground without financing. Money sets the gears of construction management in motion. Creating a construction budget, therefore, is one of the most important pieces when developing a construction plan.

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What Is Marketing Management? An Essential Introduction

ProjectManager.com

That means coordinating the marketing program elements such as marketing research, sales forecasting with product planning and development, including logistics such as transportation and storage. Marketing can feel more like an art than a science.

2021 434
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Project Managers Change the World

Project Bliss

There have been amazing projects carried out in technology, healthcare, architecture, transportation, business, and many other industries. It’s not only visionaries and dreamers who change the world. It takes more than just an idea to make a change. The idea must be put into motion – it must be executed. And that’s what Project Managers do. Ideas Without Action Have No Impact. People come up with ideas every day. Most people don’t act on them.

2017 204
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Just-In-Time Manufacturing & Production (JIT): A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Transportation waste. A key goal in manufacturing is to get products to market faster while keeping costs down. That’s why many manufacturing companies embrace just-in-time manufacturing. Just-in-time manufacturing is popular for a reason.

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Intelligent Collaboration for Predictive Insight & Competitive Advantage

LiquidPlanner

Flyvbjerg et al, “Five Things You Should Know about Cost Overrun,” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, vol. In the COVID recovery era, many people and organizations are no longer distinguishing between office-based, remote or hybrid work.

2022 146
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IWAS PCH WC 2022 Entry 0: Introduction

Gunther Verheyen

It means I help him dress, undress, wash and daily hygiene, eat, get in/out of bed, visit the restroom, change chairs, transportation. Entry 1 of an assistant’s web-log of the IWAS Powerchair Hockey World Cup 2022 Sursee.

2022 97
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Why are projects often delivered late?

LiquidPlanner

The people I was meeting, and transporting, were not ready when I arrived. Why are projects often delivered late? Missed deadlines or missing deadlines – both can challenge your project and cause late delivery.

2022 158
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Balance Your Work and Life Priorities | 4 Guiding Principles

International Institute for Learning

When there were significant events or meetings, I would alter my plans by getting a ride with a colleague or using public transportation. By Alan Zucker. Balancing our work and home lives is a challenge that nearly everyone faces.

2022 59
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European Defense Industry 2021: Challenges and Trends

Epicflow Blog

The industry was actively engaged in supporting citizens in terms of redefection (returning foreigners home during the pandemic), logistics, transportation of medical equipment, and disinfecting. There’s probably no industry in the world that hasn’t been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

2021 98
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What Is a Site Analysis for Architecture Projects? Checklist & Steps

ProjectManager.com

The city or county in which the site is located will have property records that are often online including maps, zoning information, land ownership, school districts, transportation, utilities and more.

2022 367
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How good are you at starting off your project?

Ron Rosenhead

Related Posts: Transport for London’s Signal Failure – £886m more… What a great report – every company should read it Optimistic planning bias strikes again? I came across an interesting report published by the National Audit Office (NAO) – which exists to provide independent opinion and evidence to assist Parliament and hold government to account. I was surprised as I had not seen this report before.

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ERP systems explained simply

Inloox

Supplementary functions such as transport and foreign trade management or goods receipt and goods issue processing can be useful. The origin and meaning of ERP systems The first predecessor of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) was developed and established in industry more than 100 years ago.

2022 204
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Remote Project Management: A Quick Guide with Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

No longer do they have to spend money on commuting, whether that’s public transportation or gas and the normal wear-and-tear on their cars. At the beginning of project management, everyone was physically working together. But work management is no longer under one roof.

2021 380
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US strategic advantage depends upon addressing cybersecurity vulnerabilities of weapon systems

Brad Egeland

Russian state-backed actors have employed cyber operations to disrupt, degrade, and deny Ukrainian infrastructure, including its power grid , transportation networks , and satellite communications.

2022 182
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A Beginner’s Guide To Backup For Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

While DVDs are easily transported around, tape drives can store very large volumes of data. This is a guest article by Mauricio Prinzlau. Are you backing up your project and personal files effectively? Today’s practical option is a cloud storage solution.

2020 409
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11 Tips for Value Stream Identification

Agilemania

Identifying any possible efficiencies or setbacks in the system can be aided by listing each person responsible for transporting material from one strategy phase to another. Value stream identification is a crucial step in the Lean process.

2022 98
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Why People Are the Most Important Resource in the Company

Inloox

As an example, they include an adequate workplace, easy access to public transport or a reliable internet connection. What do you think of when you hear the word resource? Perhaps natural resources in the form of oil or gold, hidden in the earth beneath our feet. Or do you have a project budget in mind that is running low?

2021 189
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The 5 Lean Principles: Definitions & How to Use Them

ProjectManager.com

Transportation. Lean management originated in Japan, where it grew out of the Toyota Production System. This led to lean manufacturing, but today lean is used in more industries, such as project management, software development, construction and more.

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If Risk Is Your Business, Do It Better Than Captain Kirk

LiquidPlanner

In return, he offers humanity access to knowledge centuries more advanced than warp drives and transporters. He orders Dr. Mulhall to the transporter room and prevents the security detail from beaming down. As a great philosopher and chewer of scenery, Star Trek ’s James T. Kirk once said, “ Risk is our business ”—nothing great can be accomplished if you’re not willing to take some risks. I like to say, “If failure isn’t an option, then innovation isn’t an opportunity.”

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Six Sigma: A Simple Guide for Project Managers

ProjectManager.com

Lean focuses on eliminating eight areas of waste: defects, overproduction, waiting, non-utilized talent, transportation, inventory, motion and extra-processing. It’s been around for three decades, but Six Sigma can still be somewhat of an enigma. It can mean different things within various organizations or circumstances, but there is a way to broadly outline this business process improvement methodology and define its beginnings, its, rise, its use and its implementation.

2018 417
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3 Ways to Manage Work to Stay Productive

Project Bliss

Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration created guidelines for Fatigue Risk Management Systems for aviation safety as a “fatigue mitigation tool that minimizes the acute and chronic sources of fatigue and manages the potential risks associated with fatigue.” This week I’m on vacation with my family and featuring a post by Ari Farrow of Cerri. .

2018 136