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Shop Floor Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control

ProjectManager.com

Businesses are always looking for ways to improve efficiency. Manufacturers are no different, except in the areas in which they seek to standardize and streamline their production processes. One method they use is shop floor manufacturing. For those new to the term, let’s first define its parts, such as what is a shop floor and a shop floor plan. Then we’ll explore shop floor management, what a shop floor manager does and best practices to achieve the benefits of effective shop floor management.

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10 Data Protection Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Does your project include processing of personal data? Or any other kind of data? Or sharing data between organizations? Chances are, you're going to have a workstream of activity related to data management and data protection. I've worked on a lot of projects with a data migration element, and many of my projects require DPIAs (more on those later).

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The Myth of Complete Foresight

Scrum.org

Agile frameworks are used in complex environments where requirements and technology are ever-changing. It seems pretty unrealistic to think that we could envision all of the customer’s requirements upfront. And yet, that’s what many of those using a Waterfall approach to value delivery are trying to do. The Waterfall approach is both a structured and sequential process.

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How Effective Project Management Can Enhance Your SEO Strategy

The IIL Blog

By Amit Raj May 29, 2024 Introduction In today’s digital landscape, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the backbone of a successfully thriving online business. Whether you want to enhance the visibility of your business in the digital world, or generate high quality leads, a well-crafted SEO strategy is essential. It builds trust, credibility, and drives traffic to your website.

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Don’t Get Left Behind: Leveraging Modern Product Management Across the Organization

Speaker: Kat Conner

The challenge of delivering the right product at the right time while aligning with strategic objectives is more pressing than ever. Product management is evolving and gaining greater recognition as the means to creating this connection. Join our upcoming webinar and learn how to streamline your product development processes, infuse product thinking across the organization, and bridge the gap between vision and delivery.

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App Modernization: How to Manage Risk and Generate ROI as You Go

Leading Agile

You moved a critical application to the cloud, expecting infrastructure and operational expenses to decrease. It didn’t play out like you thought. You are paying much more than you planned, making you reconsider why you moved it to the cloud in the first place. But there was a reason you moved to the cloud, and running an application on your infrastructure just puts you right back where you started. 3 Major Components Driving Cloud Costs The major components of your cloud cost are compute, st

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How to Plan to Quit Your Job

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have you ever thought about how to prepare to leave your job professionally (and gracefully)? What should you do before quitting your job? Having been in your shoes -- not wanting to hand in my resignation until I'm fully prepared to go -- I've got all the answers for you! In my case, no one walked me off the premises, but I was prepared to leave that exact day just in case I was put on gardening leave.

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3 Fehler in Sprint-Retrospektiven, die amateurhafte Scrum Master begehen

Scrum.org

Was unterscheidet einen Amateur von einem Profi? Professionelle Scrum Master übernehmen Verantwortung für Scrum. Sie sehen ihre Aufgabe nicht nur in der Moderation von Meetings unter der Annahme, dass die Entwickler dies nicht selbst könnten. Vielmehr sehen sie ihre Rolle darin, sicherzustellen, dass das Scrum Team effektiv arbeitet. Sie helfen dem Team, Ziele zu setzen.

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L’Intelligence Artificielle : Outil, Ami ou Ennemi ?

The IIL Blog

Résumé Alors que l’IA s’intègre de plus en plus dans divers aspects de la société, une question se pose : l’IA est-elle un outil, un ami ou un ennemi ? Ou s’agit-il d’un mélange des trois, en fonction de la situation et de l’application ? Ce livre blanc explore les multiples facettes de l’IA, en examinant son potentiel en tant qu’outil de progrès, ami renforçant les capacités humaines, et adversaire potentiel si elle n’est pas gérée avec soin

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How Digital Twin Software Supports Digital Transformation

Productivity Land

Businesses across industries are increasingly recognizing the importance of transformation. This involves utilizing technology to enhance operations, elevate customer experience, and foster innovation. A key tool in this transformation is software, which aids businesses in making informed decisions, streamlining processes, and achieving their objectives.

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The Project Clinic: Assessing Project Health, Planning, and Execution

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar

Picture your projects as patients, each with its own unique rhythm and pulse, thriving under your care 🥼 🩺 Step into the role of an innovative project doctor in our upcoming webinar! This session is your guide to evaluating the health of your projects through Waterfall and Agile practices like Scrum and Kanban. We’ll explore the vital signs of project success through the lens of the “iron triangle” metrics, using deliverables as tracers.

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10 Best Buildertrend Alternatives of 2024 (Free + Paid)

ProjectManager.com

Buildertrend is construction project management software used by residential builders, from custom builders to specialty contractors and remodelers. This cloud-based solution helps to manage projects, reduce errors and increase customer satisfaction. However, there are many Buildertrend alternatives that offer construction project managers and their teams better tools to manage their work.

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I asked ChatGPT to make 10 pictures of project managers… and the results are surprising

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I asked ChatGPT to make me some pictures of project managers for an article I was working on and the results were surprising. Or rather, as a female project manager, the results were not surprising at all. There's lots of chat in the world of project management at the moment about the value of AI, but what are the biases that sit behind that AI? Anyway, before I rant, let me show you what happened when I ran my ChatGPT 4o experiment.

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The Move to Product Thinking is Gaining Momentum

Scrum.org

At Scrum.org, we have a website that draws in millions of visitors, all thanks to our small but efficient team and robust cloud infrastructure. This setup allows our team to make instant changes to the website, introduce new products, or publish a blog with the potential to reach thousands of people. The power of LLMs and Generative AI amplifies this reach, offering innovative ways to access information, generate content, and structure it according to the customer's needs.

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Integrating Dual Materiality in Project-Intensive Organizations to Meet ISSB Disclosure Requirements

Green Project Management

GPM is active as part of the IFRS Consultant Content Program and constantly monitors changes in reporting requirements to ensure what we are sharing is both correct and up to date. Today, I want to talk about something that is very important as organizations start working on 2024 disclosures. The ISSB (International Sustainability Standards Board) […] The post Integrating Dual Materiality in Project-Intensive Organizations to Meet ISSB Disclosure Requirements appeared first on Insights int

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Toward a Unified Project Management Understanding

The objective of this research is to dispel misunderstandings about crucial project management terms and their definitions. It aims to accurately place these terms and facilitate a comprehensive global understanding of their meanings.

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La culture du projet d’avenir : Un leadership inspirant

The IIL Blog

Par Harold Kerzner, PhD. et Al Zeitoun, PhD. Résumé Dans ce livre blanc, nous aborderons quelques éléments pour entamer le dialogue sur ce que pourrait signifier un “leadership inspirant” et pourquoi il est essentiel de conduire et de motiver les générations futures, y compris les plus jeunes personnes d’aujourd’hui, la génération Alpha.

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Ganttic Update: Multi-Select Data Fields

Ganttic

This past month we released a long-awaited update to our custom data fields : Multi-select. Allowing more than one value to be selected from a user-defined list. This data field is ideal for managing employee skill sets, narrowing down large resource pools, and more. Discover some tips and use cases for the multi-select data field type in Ganttic. Using the Multi-Select Data Field The multi-select data field is available for resources , tasks , and projects.

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Lessons in failure as a project manager

Project Accelerator News

Whilst it is widely accepted that project failure does happen, it isn’t the easiest of subjects to talk about. However, the more we face up to it as an issue, the better prepared we will be to deal with it in the future, learn lessons in failure and succeed next time. Failure should always be seen as a learning opportunity. It provides an opportunity to see what went well, what went badly and what it might be possible to improve on in the future.

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Why Kanban Might Not Be a Good Fit for Your Scrum Team (Yet)

Scrum.org

Kanban and Scrum are two powerful methods/frameworks in the Agile world, each offering distinct benefits for managing work and delivering value. However, integrating Kanban into a Scrum environment is not always straightforward, and it may not be the right move for every team, especially if the team is struggling with fundamental Scrum practices. Before diving into Kanban, ensuring that your Scrum foundation is solid is crucial.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Strategic PM’s, Master the Three C’s For Career Advancement

The Strategic Project Manager

This post looks at the three C’s – Competence, Compatibility, and Commitment. The three C’s are critical elements of the employee-employer relationship. We explore what they are, how they relate to one another, and what they mean for employees and employers alike. Finally, we think about the strategic and project management implications of the three C’s.

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3 Conseils Pour Gérer des Projets Complexes Comme un Pro

The IIL Blog

Par Monika Muddamshetty 24 janvier 2024 Aujourd’hui, les organisations doivent s’efforcer d’aller au-delà de l’achèvement d’un projet et de la satisfaction du client. Il ne suffit plus d’exécuter les projets conformément à ce qui a été convenu avec les clients en termes d’exigences, de délais, de coûts et de qualité.

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Boosting Value Performance Per Day (VPD) with AI

PM That Works

In project management, timely and effective decisions are critical to success. However, the traditional approach is filled with time-consuming tasks that prevent project managers from focusing on what truly matters—creating value. This is where the concept of Value Performance per Day (VPD) comes into play. VPD measures the amount of value a project manager can deliver in a day, directly impacting the project's success.

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Eleven IT project lessons to be learned at … Tatton Garden Show

Project Accelerator News

Blog by Nicol Cutts, Head of Projects, Professional Services at Stoneseed. In recent weeks, I’ve shared IT Project Management learning that can be gleaned from Crufts dog show and Chatsworth International Horse Trials. It seems there’s an IT Project Management lesson everywhere you look! When a colleague heard that I was heading to the RHS Tatton Garden Show in July, she said that even I couldn’t find project management teachings in the topsoil.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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¿Cómo empoderan los OKR a los equipos Scrum?

Scrum.org

(1/6) Los OKR alinean a los equipos con la estrategia y les permiten separarse del modelo IT services Las organizaciones tradicionales en su mayoría han adoptado la agilidad de una manera limitada. La han visto como un método para entregar antes y mejor los proyectos identificados en la estrategia y definidos por los departamentos de negocio. La agilidad frecuentemente se ha instalado dentro de los departamentos de Servicios IT.

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How Project Tracking Software Can Help You Stay on Top of Project Timelines?

Celoxis

How project tracking software helps manage timelines. Celoxis, the best project tracking software, offers robust PPM tools for efficient project tracking, time tracking, and management.

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Unleash Your Creativity with Mind Genius: The Ultimate Mind Mapping Software

MindGenius

It is argued that ideas are valuable to humans, particularly in the contemporary society characterized by scarcity of time as with organizational tools. Mind mapping software creates a radical shift in your working or studying process at school or college, as an employee or self-employed, as a thinker and a doer. After this, you are […] The post Unleash Your Creativity with Mind Genius: The Ultimate Mind Mapping Software first appeared on MindGenius.

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Capgemini has created an asset management tool based on Sitetracker to optimize INWIT’s operational data

Sitetracker

Capgemini applied its expertise to develop an asset management tool based on Sitetracker, while Sitetracker also provided product advisory and configuration support for INWIT. The post Capgemini has created an asset management tool based on Sitetracker to optimize INWIT’s operational data appeared first on Sitetracker.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.