Epicflow Blog

JUNE 9, 2020

Usually, time estimates are exaggerated in order to cover Murphy’s Law (If something can go wrong it will go wrong). When your team is working on a project and every member has their individual tasks with estimated durations, your project due dates are dependent on these people’s efficiency. Albert Ponsteen.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Read more about coping with changing requirements in our blog post: Changing Requirements in Project Management: How to Stay on Track. . Historical data is widely used at the project initiation and planning phases: e.g., it allows a project manager to make the right estimates and set realistic expectations regarding teams’ performance.

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Proofhub

AUGUST 25, 2020

After the expectations and the aims are clear, we can move on to estimating what we already have and, consequently, what we would be needing. Here are some examples of some project management techniques you could consider applying to your project: Agile methodology, Critical chain methodology, Scrum, and Waterfall.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Thus, the formal critical path for small projects is often obvious enough for project managers and for project management software. Project management tools are helpful in the visualization of the schedule, and in quick calculation of an approximate end date when there are estimates in place. Involve your team in the planning process.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 4, 2023

I my first 15 years, I used single-point estimation to build project schedules. The next ten years I used ranged estimations with traditional Gantt chart project scheduling software tools – this was better but cumbersome. Ranged estimation has been around since the introduction of PERT and the three-point estimation method.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 17, 2022

One of the first ways to do this is to ask these simple questions: How often have your projects finished on time compared to their original estimates? When teams add a reasonable variation from best to worst case estimation, that’s enough to predict the range of delivery with far more confidence. When did you take steps to resolve it?

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Let’s examine the way Epicflow’s team has made a classical critical chain (CC) tool called “Fever chart” more powerful with Bubble Graph. . A “fever chart” term is closely related to the Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) from the Theory of Constraints (TOC). 1997), Critical Chain, 1st ed.,

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Sudipta Lahiri

MARCH 16, 2014

In this case, would it make more sense to go for: a) Pure Critical chain or Microsoft project plan based date based approach b) Combination approach: Critical chain based planning followed by Kanban execution. Estimate upfront (high level) and understand the feasibility of delivering. Small Cycles. Testing: .

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Epicflow Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Read more: Bubble Graph: Critical Chain Fever Chart Re-Imagined. A function of calculating the risk of the discrepancy between the initially estimated time for task accomplishment and the real time spent by the group of people working on the project. Critical Chain . Bubble Graph. Budget View . Group Risk Factor.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

” Eli Schragenheim The lesson is: when you ask for a clear one-number estimation, without defining the level of common and expected uncertainty, then you either might face big surprises or face frequent occurrences, where the project/mission finished exactly on time.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Activity Duration Estimates Review . is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. Analogous Estimating . Bottom-Up Estimating . Bottom-Up EAC (estimate at completion) Method .

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Activity Duration Estimates Review . is a process of detecting risks related to the time allowances for activities in particular or a project in general, with the width of estimates range indicating a respective level of risk. Analogous Estimating . Bottom-Up Estimating . Bottom-Up EAC (estimate at completion) Method .

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Paymo App

APRIL 2, 2018

But through this clutter, how easy is it to find the most valuable blog feeds out there? Project management blogs and resources can be a primary source of knowledge, especially if project management (PM) experts contribute to them. There are plenty of blogs and websites for beginners and PM students.

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Wrike

MAY 19, 2014

Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). CCPM avoids that by building a project schedule that first identifies a “critical chain” of tasks and then reserving resources for those tasks. Critical Path Method (CPM). The post Project Management Methodologies Review (Part 1) appeared first on Blog Wrike.

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