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For the past year and a half, Ian MacDuff has been testing a new approach to managing customer work with great success. As Vice President of Client Engagement at Product Creation Studio (PCS), a Seattle-based design and engineering firm, MacDuff is a seasoned product engineer and team leader. He and his ace team at PCS
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Prioritizing project work is a challenge for project teams across many industries. While shifting priorities are a natural part of working life, when you don’t prioritize work you can lay havoc to all your team’s projects and initiatives, and even drain team morale. Effective prioritization is as much an art as a science. Here are
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When you work on a manufacturing project, you face some unique challenges, often with a lot at stake. You have to deliver your product at consistently high-quality standards, navigate end-to-end supply chains and manage strict time-to-market deadlines driven by demanding customers or seasonal demands. To top it all off, the entire project might be following
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Architecting procedural change within a business is hard work, but it’s the vital and often overlooked work that can make or break the long-term success of a business. No one knows this better than Kevin Kohls, Director of Continuous Improvement for Rex Materials Group, makers of refractory (heat-resistant) and high-temperature materials commonly used in the
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Project Manager . . . Program Manager. Most of us have met one or the other, and many of us have wondered: What’s the difference? It’s easy to get confused because in some organizations program managers do work that looks a lot like what program managers do. Also, the names are so similar it’s hard
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Are you busy? Or do you think you’re busy because you spend a lot of time working? If you answered yes to this last question, then stop what you’re doing and read this Inc. article, “Why Working Hard Isn’t the Same as Working Smart ,” from entrepreneur and startup author Steve Blank. Blank’s thesis is
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This advice column addresses common project management and workplace challenges. If you have question, ask Elizabeth! Email your question to: MarketingTeam@liquidplanner.com with the subject “Advice Column.” Anonymity included. Dear Elizabeth: I manage a team that that is always juggling multiple project tasks. How can I keep my team focused on their top
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