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Production Tracking: Monitoring the Success of Your Manufacturing Process

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Production tracking is a method of monitoring, controlling and managing the production process. This allows manufacturers to make more informed decisions and address issues promptly, which leads to the optimization of their operations. These are some of the important areas that are monitored in production.

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Project Monitoring and Control: Tools & Steps

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All are important, especially project monitoring. Project monitoring and control is how a project manager ensures the plan they’re implementing with the project team goes off without a hitch. Project controlling involves a lot of steps to thoroughly monitor the project schedule, resources and costs.

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Resource Analysis in Project Management: Steps & Free Templates

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Project managers monitor resource rates and analyze resource utilization to make informed decisions on balancing workload to keep teams working at capacity, address shortages to ensure that resources are available when and where they’re needed and enhance efficiency. Our software gives project managers this data in real time.

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A Quick Guide to KPI Dashboards (Examples and Templates Included)

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Executing a plan, whether a project or a larger organizational strategy, is pointless without monitoring its progress and performance. These dashboards can identify trends, monitor progress and allow for data-driven decision making. Manufacturing KPI Dashboard: This KPI dashboard helps manufacturers monitor and review production.

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Performing Proficient Portfolio Management Against All Odds

Speaker: Ordonna Sargeant — PMP Staff Research Program Manager, Twitter | Scrum Master | Author | Speaker | ATP PMP Instructor | Adjunct Professor | PM Content Creator

Project portfolio management assumes you will need a tool belt filled with methodologies, processes, and KPIs for collecting, assessing, ranking, monitoring, and managing all potential projects. The question is how do we as PMs meet the goal of helping key stakeholders and executives make informed decisions and maximize value?

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Work in Progress (WIP) Report in Construction (Template Included)

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General contractors strive to maintain each job’s profit margin, so it makes sense that the construction project will be monitored closely to ensure it’s progressing as planned. This then informs how the budget is managed and will be used to generate reports to track the percentage complete of the construction project.

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What Is a RAID Log and Why Should I Use One?

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But once the plan is in place, and you’ve detailed all the risks likely to occur over the life cycle of the project, the next step is having a system in place to monitor and track the risks that might happen, and the issues that do. It’s a simple way to organize this information and comes in handy during meetings and project audits.