Project Management May 19, 2023 Schedule Conflicts: Their Causes and Ways to Prevent Them Schedule conflicts belong to the typical challenges of managing multiple projects with a shared resource pool. For example, the activities team members participate in can overlap or it can turn out th...
Project Management May 4, 2023 How to Tame Uncertainty of Research and Development: Best Practices for Managing R&D Projects If we had to choose one word that best describes R&D projects, it would be “uncertainty”—they have so many changing elements, and their outcomes are often hard to predict. Nevertheless, this doesn't ...
Resource Management April 24, 2023 Resource Optimization: Key Techniques & Best Practices Optimum utilization of resources’ potential is not only the key to the successful completion of projects but also an essential prerequisite for an organization’s business growth. But it can be rather ...
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...
Project Management November 24, 2022 Creating a Work Breakdown Structure: What You Need to Know Initial project phases play an important role for the success of further project management work. One of the essential activities as part of these phases is developing a work breakdown structure that ...
Project Management November 8, 2022 Becoming a Successful Project Manager: 5 Tips to Achieve Professional Goals and Objectives Being a successful project manager is not just about creating good plans and schedules and telling the team members what they should work on. It also requires proper coordination of people and process...
Project Management October 5, 2022 Tracking Performance: Switching from Project to Resource Level When your project is in progress, you as a project manager or business leader will definitely want to know how things are going and have an opportunity to check it at any moment. But in a multi-projec...
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 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 July 5, 2022 Project Cost Estimation: Overview of the Process, Main Challenges, and Best Practices [2026] Estimation of project costs is one of the core practices of the project initiation stage, which becomes the basis for the approved project budget. However, the main challenge of this process is that i...
