Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 12, 2021

The need for specialists in the field of project management is growing annually because businesses are getting bigger and most companies are becoming project-based. According to the research by Project Management Institute , 87.7 million project management-oriented experts will be required by 2027 by different companies worldwide.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 19, 2023

Also, the employee may be interfacing with other employees, including other project managers, that they never worked with before and might never work with again. In the early years of modern project management, most companies used a matrix management organizational structure for staffing projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 8, 2016

The previous project manager might have moved on to do something else and you’ve got the project as part of an internal reshuffle of resources. You won’t know if the risk log is sound and the resource planning sensible until you investigate. First, establish the authority that the project manager (that’s now you) has on this project.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 4, 2018

By Anselm Begley, PMP, PRINCE2, CBAP, CSM, APMG Managing Benefits. Project Management certification demonstrates an individual’s experience, knowledge, and skill in project management – and in many companies, it’s a requirement for new and current project managers. Were you informed? I think not.

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Project Management Hacks

APRIL 28, 2016

Have you ever considered the public sector and government for your next career move? Governments face interesting problems and that means there are opportunities to deliver new projects. government to launching his own venture, GovLoop. My thanks to Winnie Liem and the PMI-SOC Government Community for introducing me to Steve.

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Tony Adams

APRIL 20, 2019

How does an organisation’s business and innovation context affect the way it approaches project management? We talk a lot about Project Management structure, processes and practices – these are put forward as a way of providing stability and certainty. Where are our innovation priorities?

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Tony Adams

APRIL 20, 2019

How does an organisation’s business and innovation context affect the way it approaches project management? We talk a lot about Project Management structure, processes and practices – these are put forward as a way of providing stability and certainty. Where are our innovation priorities?

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Online PM Courses

JULY 23, 2018

When you have been Managing Projects for a while, you will start to notice that some things are always true. Each of these ‘ Project Management Rules ‘ reminds us of something important about Project Management, so I have been collecting them for nearly 20 years. Mike’s Project Management Rules.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM).

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The beginning of all business critical software development projects is the point in time when performing organizations are least certain about the project, yet it is also the time when top management expects to be delivered project estimates that are very precise. 37–48, 2007. IT Risk Management. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

One of our clients, a retired USAF Col Program Manager at an NNSA Weapons Testing Site has a statement that is applicable here: If you lack academic basis and validated experience, your advice is simply unsubstantiated opinion without any basis in fact or principle. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . 1, January 2007. 3, August 2012.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Root Cause is the fundamental initiating cause on a causal chain leading to a failure of a process which results in a recurrence of the problem. Root Cause Analysis is a systematic documented approach to arrive at the true Root Cause of the process problem. Gano, Atlas Books, 2007. Why Do Information Technology Projects Fail?”

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Project Controls are Management Actions, either preplanned to achieve the desired result, or taken as a corrective measure prompted by the monitoring process. In the Project Controls paradigm, Value is a measurable attribute of the project controls process - a Closed Loop Control measure. INCOSE-TP-2005-020-10.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Prentice-Hall, 1981. So the question is? -

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

Uncertainty creates Risk. Risk management requires active reduction of risk. Management of this reduction work and measurement of the progress is a Close Loop Control System paradigm. The creation and management of the Plan is usually performed by the Program Planning and Controls group where I work. .

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Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2020

– And I was a project manager. – And you were a project manager in a different part of the organization. – Yeah, I remember one time I think I drove up to Charlotte to meet with some executives at MBNA and to teach them about how we were managing software projects. – The Agile management stuff, right?

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MPUG

JULY 1, 2020

Hey listen, Kyle is going to manage the questions today. In terms of critical path analysis folks, those of you who’ve been involved in a little heavier project management, it’s the forward pass, but it’s not the only pass. It isn’t heaven and earth, and your reputation will be better off in the process.

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MPUG

JULY 17, 2020

Jim has been a part of the product management software business since 1985 and for the past 20 plus years with Critical Tools. It does task-planning, task-scheduling to manage your project utilizing a WBS chart, a network chart, and even Gantt charts just like you can in Microsoft Project. What it is, it’s a planning tool.

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