Leadership March 10, 2023 Hiring Extra Employees vs. Adopting a Resource Management Solution: Сhoosing the Right Investment When a company needs to deliver more orders, it may seem natural to hire more resources to fulfill the increasing demand. At the same time, such a decision has its disadvantages – onboarding a new emp...
Resource Management March 1, 2023 Resource Availability: All You Need to Know In Outline Resource availability is a critical component of effective resource allocation: you need this data to assign the right people to the right task for timely and successful project delivery. But despit...
Resource Management February 20, 2023 Resource Utilization Made Simple: Essence, Importance, and Ways to Optimize It How to make sure that a company utilizes its available resources wisely so that they are productive but aren’t overloaded? How to minimize downtime, and get the chance to increase a project’s profitab...
Epicflow Updates December 29, 2022 Epicflow 2022 Advent Calendar: Company Updates, New Features, and Plans for 2023 Summing up the achievements at the end of the year has already become a good tradition at Epicflow. In 2022, we’ve implemented a lot of updates - both in the team, features, and website, and we also h...
Epicflow Updates November 14, 2022 Bottlenecks in Project Management: When One Constraint Slows Down Progress Even a detailed project plan can run into a bottleneck. When several projects need the same specialist, approval, or test environment, work queues at that point while other teams wait. Bottlenecks in ...
Resource Management September 5, 2022 5 Resource Allocation Problems and How to Resolve Them It may happen that despite your efforts, your projects don’t bring the desired outcomes and sometimes even fail. The reasons vary, but improper resource allocation is one of the most common causes. In...
Project Management September 1, 2022 A Business Case in Project Management: Why Start a Project? Whatever great idea is behind a project, it won’t be implemented without stakeholders’ buy-in and investment. To get their support and approval, they need to understand what value an initiative will b...
Project Management August 25, 2022 Top 7 Reasons for Project Failure in a Multi-Project Environment Project failures don’t happen out of the blue — they’re always the result of improper management actions. In a complex multi-project environment with limited resources, the price for improper manageme...
Project Management August 19, 2022 A Guide to Project Integration Management Every project management activity doesn’t exist in isolation – they are all related to and dependent on each other, may have competing requirements and/or shared resources. And if there are multiple p...
Project Management August 3, 2022 7 Essential Questions About a Project Management Office (PMO) As companies develop and grow, and the number of projects they deliver increases, business leaders are seeking ways to ensure more efficient coordination of all their initiatives. For this purpose, a ...
Digital Transformation July 12, 2022 Becoming a Data-Driven Organization: What You Need to Know “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion”, W. Edwards Deming Data and technologies have become the drivers of innovations and competitiveness in today’s constantly changing business e...
Project Management May 24, 2022 Resource Leveling in Project Management: Key Techniques and Tools What if you allocate resources to project tasks and realize that some employees are required for several assignments at the same time? Or a team member’s workload turns out to exceed his or her actual...
