Epicflow Blog

MAY 13, 2019

Poor Project Planning. Over 50% of our respondents mentioned lack of proper planning and estimates to be among the biggest challenges. There are many factors that lead to poor project planning. There are many factors that lead to poor project planning. If a project’s scope isn’t well-defined, it can trigger failure.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

What is the optimal size of a team? Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? Is scaling always a bad idea? Of all the impediments that a team faces, which is the one to focus on first?

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

You may have stellar skills and a fantastic team, but neither helps that sinking feeling when you have to ask a client for a deadline extension on a project. Inaccurate time estimation is the cause of 25% of failed projects. Learning how to estimate time for a project is tricky, but critical to its success. You’re not alone.

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Scoro

MARCH 11, 2024

There are lots available—each varying in features and complexity, but each helps you keep your team organized and on schedule. In this guide, we’ll highlight a list of project management tools and software that help you manage tasks, collaborate with your team, and manage resources.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Budget 98

LiquidPlanner

JULY 13, 2022

Shifting priorities isn’t always a bad thing. Software like LiquidPlanner makes it easy to create an action plan against your goals. LiquidPlanner helps you estimate timelines by listing tasks and then applying ranged estimations. In fact, it may well yield better outcomes. This is the time of year to assess and find out!

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As somebody hiring for a Scrum Team, you need to determine for yourself what works for your organization — which is a process, not a destination. A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring.

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Likewise, we live in a world where the whole organizational approach to remote teams is finally changing. The distributed team concept is getting so endorsed that 50% of all of the US Workforce will be completely remote by the year 2020. Agile Project Management for Distributed Teams. Make your team more Agile.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I have personally worked in PMOs that were not supported at the top, where executives pushed their own projects through with hand-picked project teams outside of the PMO. Bad structure and misalignment leads to PMO failure, every time. You will be robbing your PMO team of the practical experience that will lead to success.

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Planio

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That means communicating with their team and project stakeholders , setting realistic requirements, running meetings , assigning tasks , and managing time, budgets, and expectations. to keep their teams organized, document lessons learned, and manage tasks from start to finish. How to develop your project leadership skills.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. Updating project management software to keep their team on track 9. But there’s a problem. Assessing and mitigating project risks 7.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In fact, the more closely we look at the world, the less it resembles a stage. The same metaphor that helps us gain an initial grasp of a new subject can lead us far astray from a deep understanding of that subject, if we cling too closely to the metaphor. “Velocity” in software development doesn’t mean velocity.

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nTask

AUGUST 18, 2019

However, we decided to dedictate this weak to Project Evaluation and Review Technique. PERT Methodology allows the project manager to devise a budget depending upon the duration of the project without knowing all the details and durations of the tasks and to closely monitor the progress of the project. Introduction.

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Leading Agile

MAY 28, 2018

Velocity is the most widely used-and-abused metric associated with Agile software development. How are things going in your software development organization? ” We just estimate the time for each User Story and convert that into Story Points. You start with a time estimate and covert it to Story Points?

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

It refers to any prediction or estimation made on a project’s status, including how it will unfold in the future. The very first meeting conducted between stakeholders and the project team. . Any discussion between teams to resolve difference on opinions or any other issues that negatively affect project execution. Remote Team.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. The best books for building better habits (for yourself and your team). Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good habits & Break Bad Ones. Executing: Managing teams and stakeholders and ensuring you hit your deadlines. Gantt Chart. Communication Plan.

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

According to the Project Management Institute’s Pulse of the Profession survey , 81% of top-performing companies prioritize the development of technical project management skills. Next, ask your team questions. If you can’t walk the walk with your development team, they’re going to reject your suggestions.

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Paymo App

MARCH 21, 2018

I also showed you how you can create a to-do list and make time and cost estimates. This allows you to create accurate estimates of the costs and time you’ll need to deliver the project. In the case of a software development project, you can come to an agreement with your client and offer two revisions to the initial version.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and management. Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Identifying the Causes of Scope Creep Unrealistic Initial Estimates: When project managers underestimate the complexity or resources required for a project, it can lead to overruns and the need for additional work that falls outside the initial scope.

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MPUG

JANUARY 14, 2022

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Sam Bell’s course, Critical Path Modeling Using Microsoft Project (Lesson 1: Estimating Resources and Using Resource Calendars), being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Melanie is here with team MPUG. Melanie: Hello welcome. With that, let’s start off.

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Workzone

MAY 24, 2019

Here are three reasons your team currently isn’t meeting their deadlines, and what you can do to eliminate these problems going forward. For instance, imagine your last software development project took 16 months to complete. The more data you have, the more confident you can be in your estimates. Method 3: Add reserves.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Metrics and data can be a touchy subject for Agile teams. In the best-case scenario, Agile metrics like sprint burndown charts, velocity, and cumulative flow diagrams are used to reduce confusion and show team progress (or bottlenecks). So it’s no wonder that so many technical teams view agile metrics with a healthy dose of skepticism.

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Resource Guru

JULY 19, 2023

Any thriving creative team is supported by a solid advertising agency workflow. Not only do advertising agency workflows differ from workflows for other agency types—say recruitment or software development. Meaning you can respond to bottlenecks and project changes without over-allocating your team. television or radio).

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

PERT charts provide a visual representation of a project’s tasks, their dependencies, and the estimated time needed to complete each task. Can have additional information associated with them, such as the person or team responsible for completing the task, the resources required, and any dependencies on other tasks or milestones.

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PM Basics

JUNE 17, 2020

It fully comes from my practical experience in managing software development projects for nine years. How to build a strong team and honor commitments. How to Build a PM Team. Team Builder. The team’s motivation is a part of the Develop Project Team process. Key Concepts of Leadership.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and business management. Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy, since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. And the practices are not connected to any principle.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If, for example, a project manager believes a member of his or her team is a fast and effective worker, each time that team member works fast and effectively or is told by a colleague about the work that has been done fast and effectively, the project manager will consider his or her belief to be well-founded.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.”

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2019

Newly trained Agilists typically are assigned to join an existing project team by means of an experiment. Most people in the team are unhappy and try to switch projects, but not the Scrum Master. Following initial experiments, organizations get started with a real Scrum team. Pre-Scrum waterfall . Starting with Early Scrum.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Open Loop / Closed Loop Project Controls - project management is a closed loop control system. Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things.

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PM Basics

JUNE 5, 2018

Agile Project Management is common for Software Development and Telecommunication industries. However, I believe that for a Project Manager it is a natural development. Develop Acceptance Criteria. Leave all the rest for the project team to handle. The Scrum Team will use the prioritized Backlog as usually.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 20, 2017

For software development systems like Kanban, which is production line-centric, Litle's Law tells us. λ = average production rate of complete software components. λ = average production rate of complete software components. There are two fundamental assumptions for Little's Law to work in the software development domain".

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. Closed Loop Stochastic Adaptive control in the presence of Evolving Uncertainty. This extended post covers.

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Velociteach

OCTOBER 16, 2023

And I also share it with my team. And there’s very little buzz about Judith, when really she was a software developer herself. The leading hospitals of the world use this software to take care of patients. It’s a pretty fantastic story from a female leader in software development, especially from the ‘70s.

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ActiveCollab

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Extreme Programming (XP) is an agile project management framework used in software development. It prescribes everything, from how to organize projects and develop software, to how to increase developers’ productivity and what’s the best way to collaborate on code. What’s at the core of Extreme Programming (XP).

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