Epicflow Blog

JUNE 10, 2022

The aerospace engineering sector deals with mostly large and complex projects. What are the most typical risks associated with aerospace engineering projects, and how to manage them effectively? Main Risks Affecting Aerospace Engineering Projects. Engineering risks. Let’s figure it out in the article. .

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 17, 2023

At this point, there will be a selection of the project delivery method, construction cost estimating and permitting. A project team is assembled, which commonly includes the following: contract administrator, project manager, superintendent, field engineer and health and safety manager. The last step is the construction documentation.

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Scrum.org

MAY 15, 2023

Instead, invest more time in prompt engineering, and provide ChatGPT with a better context of the situation, desired outcomes, data, constraints, etc. You will learn: Prompt engineering basics Prompt engineering with services like PromptPerfect Using ChatGPT for prompt engineering. Yub, that works, too.) ??

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Wrike

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Accurate construction cost estimates are crucial for successful project planning and execution. Understanding the Basics of Construction Budgeting Accurate cost estimation is the cornerstone of construction budgeting. Moreover, accurate cost estimates play a crucial role in financial planning and control.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 15, 2017

Here’s a lesson I’m thankful I learned early in my career: successful engineering projects rely more on non-technical skills than technical skills. It’s not that the technical skills aren’t important – they are. One can’t design a building without knowledgeable, skilled structural, MEP, and fire engineers.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 4, 2020

They got the idea of increasing the complexity of dependency management and longer lead time due to the handoffs having individual accountability. Do you measure estimated time for a task vs. actual time spent? Bad technical practices. They got training on Scrum, understood concepts, and formed teams, but struggle to commit.

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MPUG

JANUARY 8, 2024

The solution, of course, is estimating. There is a whole science to estimation, and it would be possible to go very deeply into this. But before we start, let’s tackle the Estimation Elephant in the Room…. The estimation techniques they use are a deliberate trade-off between speed and accuracy.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 24, 2023

A practical project risk management strategy accounts for team member miscommunications and mistakes, scope creep and shifting client expectations, and any technical difficulties along the way. These may include supply chain issues, technology outages, budget constraints, or loss of talent.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 23, 2024

However, because they’re concerned with streamlining department workflows, implementing new technology or processes or even updating the company’s offerings, customers will eventually see the benefits of these improvements. Therefore, these are internal projects that aren’t designed to directly impact an audience or customer base.

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NimbleWork

JANUARY 9, 2024

You’ll have to sense-check and review the output, but intelligent analysis of past projects can pull out common and relevant tasks to give you a headstart. There’s a common theme of AI doing some of the heavy lifting and initial drafts for project teams to review and refine, and that’s a really smart way of making the best use of the tools.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It is a team-based estimating approach to work out the efforts involved for achieving business goals. At first all our employees were working from the same office, so usually we arranged our estimation sessions in the meeting room and used ScrumTime app , which is just a set of planning poker cards that you have on your mobile device.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 26, 2022

Or it could be a first-time project where estimating how long each phase will really take is hard work. Estimate work and share the schedule. Start by providing a schedule that includes thoughtful estimates for everyone’s work— by the people doing the work. Encourage teams to estimate their projects as realistically as possible.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2024

Firehawk’s Terran 1 rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel Which components or processes could benefit from composability? The engineers literally hacked the interfaces to take control and stabilize them. The company uses only common chemical components. Sovereignty over the value chain is a competitive advantage. It arrives in a few days.

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Productivity Land

MARCH 31, 2023

As a crypto business owner or marketer, it’s critical to have an SEO strategy in place when competing on search engines. In the context of SEO (search engine optimization), these are the terms that people use to look up information on search engines like Google. What Is Keyword Research and Why Is it Important?

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Planio

DECEMBER 2, 2018

While bugs are just part of the territory for technical teams, that doesn’t mean you can treat them as just business as usual. The best software teams out there are diligent and disciplined with how they track and deal with bugs. 8 of the best bug tracking (and issue tracking) tools used by top tech teams. Pivotal Tracker.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2023

I dove into sustainable IT and started with a ‘Planet Earth Retrospective’ for my Scrum Team, where we reviewed the Principles of Green Engineering. During that session, the team estimated that optimizing our landscape and decommissioning legacy components could reduce our footprint by a significant percentage!

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

Join more than 100 peers from May 27-29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a non-profit live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. Has the level of technical debt increased or decreased during the last Sprint? Scrum Master Interview Questions: How We Organized Questions and Answers.

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Herding Cats

MAY 16, 2019

No matter the domain, the engineering development process, these concepts are applicable. For any system, estimates of future life-cycle costs are subject to varying degrees of uncertainty. This bounding of the cost estimate may be attempted through sensitivity analyses or through a formal quantitative risk analysis.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 3, 2022

I use Vizzlo ( read my review of Vizzlo here ). Document how often you will review risks, what can be dealt with by the team and what should be escalated. For example, schedule risks, technical risk, scope risk. Estimating assumptions and methods. If your company has a standard risk management process, refer to that here.

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Resource Guru

JUNE 27, 2023

Time to complete projects (N-F): The speed at which your agency can complete projects, particularly when compared to initial estimates, can be a good indicator of operational efficiency. Audit your agency tech stack So you’ve got a firm grip on the numbers, but are they in the right place and does the data flow seamlessly between systems?

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Wrike

JULY 24, 2023

Understanding Proforma Templates A Proforma template is a pre-designed document that serves as a blueprint for creating financial projections, estimates, or invoices. Due Diligence: Demonstrate your thoroughness and professionalism to potential investors or collaborators. The post A Triumph!

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MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

When you fire a gun in the dark, it’s difficult to aim due to the lack of light. When Inaccurate Estimation Results in Delayed Delivery. Developers, with all due respect to them, are generally optimistic people. Estimates are often inaccurate because they are made in absolute numbers. Some are noted below.

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NimbleWork

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With the advent of technology, especially mobile and AI – how has the job of a project manager evolved? Mobile devices and technologies have certainly eased things a lot, especially on the go. In our estimate, at least 50-60% of the people we spoke to said that their organizations were Hybrid Agile organizations.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate. engineering, IT, human resources, etc.), Capacity Planning To identify the number of resources (e.g.,

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This data includes emails, text messages, IM conversations, call center logs, customer feedback, user interview transcripts, blogs, videos, product reviews, replies in questionnaires, product requirements, status reports, risk assessments, dependency maps, and the countless meetings we all have throughout the year.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Gartner estimated that AI may replace 80% of project management activities by 2030. A recent article in Harvard Business Review described “How AI Will Transform Project Management”. AI and related technologies offer the opportunity to shape-shift the profession. Generating the data to feed the AI engine may also be a challenge.

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Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team Generative AI Technical Review 88

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I) workshop has a module that talks about the Definition of DONE (DoD) and Technical Debt. What does it take for the service engineer to call the customer for the delivery of his/her vehicle? Technical Debt. I have often come across several students who find this concept confusing.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

They will need to work with the extended Scrum Master community, including Release Train Engineers and Solution Train Engineers, to increase the effectiveness of SAFe across the enterprise Embraces SAFe Lean-Agile Principles. A SAFe Scrum Master must foster technical excellence and enable teams to have continuous attention to quality.

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Velociteach

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Gartner estimated that AI may replace 80% of project management activities by 2030. A recent article in the Harvard Business Review described “ How AI Will Transform Project Management.” AI and related technologies offer the opportunity to shape-shift the profession. Testing could benefit the most AI and related technologies.

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Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team Generative AI Technical Review 81

Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all. Project Estimation.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Sprint review ceremony. Sprint review: At the end of each sprint cycle, teams meet to demo what they’ve shipped and get early feedback from stakeholders. These review sessions can be informal ‘show and tell’ sessions or more formal meetings. (And why do they matter?). The 3 key players of every ceremony. Daily scrum ceremony.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

This is the continuing and evolving story of Agile and Microsoft’s technologies. It has been and is being used for manufacturing, engineering, construction, testing, and many other project processes that require iterations or iterative working sessions leading to a final result. Understanding Agile. 12 Key Agile Principles.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

Until recently some academics and Project Management Institute (PMI) considered Agile method not a serious contender in project management due to the fact that is very hard to set a due date for project’s competition in Agile method. Project Estimation. How do you come up with project estimation in Agile world?

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NimbleWork

MARCH 10, 2024

As a Quality Engineering Manager, my mission is to revolutionize testing by fostering continuous feedback and process optimization. Clean engineering practices and DevOps provide the much-needed oiling to bring flexibility in the ecosystem. Continuous Improvement Engineering discipline and DevOps culture go hand in hand.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

When our projects undertake defined, repeatable work using technologies and approaches our organizations have experience in, then uncertainty and change rates are typically low and manageable. Here, formal planning and estimation are difficult because we don’t know what we will encounter.

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nTask

JANUARY 14, 2021

Search engine optimization projects. Search engine marketing projects. Due to modern technology like APIs and analytics such operations are undertaken to lower costs, increase quality, and reduce cycle times. Just to name a few: Website design and development. Software development. Mobile app development.

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