Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

Overwhelmed employees: an alternative to hiring new people can be increasing the workload of the available employees. . Project delays: either hiring new people or waiting for critical employees to become available will extend a project’s duration. . Both under- and overloaded employees are disengaged and inefficient.

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Sign 1: Uneven workload (overloaded and underloaded employees). . Even one overloaded resource or the one that doesn’t work according to their capacity negatively affects the whole group. The key to employee productivity and excellent project results is balanced workload. Sign 2: Disengaged and unmotivated people.

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Or perhaps they were overloaded with conflicting priorities and influenced by another manager to complete their work first? . To a certain extent, each employee is responsible for their own mental health and for speaking up when they have reached capacity. They spend that time calmly asking the team member what happened.

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Employees accustomed to traditional methods may be hesitant to embrace remote collaboration tools. They may also feel overloaded with new tools. It is also critical to avoid communication and collaboration overload. Resistance to change is a common challenge when introducing new tools.

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Epicflow Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to make sure that a company utilizes its available resources wisely so that they are productive but aren’t overloaded? Resource utilization is one of the most essential KPIs that project-based organizations should track – it gives them an idea of how efficiently they use the available resources and how productive their employees are.

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Epicflow Blog

APRIL 19, 2022

Dependencies between projects should be carefully managed, because if not, resource conflicts, overload, and missed milestones may hit your flow (Are they hitting it already? It’s an example of how our product can help you start taking more orders with the same number of resources without overloading them. . The Company’s Complaints.

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Epicflow Blog

APRIL 14, 2020

On a graph, Student Syndrome can be presented like this: The graph presents the effort an employee takes to perform a task, and the time spent for this kind of activity. Overload and Multitasking. Overload and Multitasking. Overload quite often results in multitasking, which can be either good or bad. Uncertainty .

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Inloox

JULY 25, 2023

Transparency and clear allocations through InLoox Recently, we wrote about the use of the RACI matrix in project management and highlighted the importance of clear responsibilities on our project management blog. In contrast, the employee's area of responsibility only includes individual tasks and not the holistic monitoring of the project.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In turn, Future Load Graph deals with resources’ availability and capacity in the future depending on their current tasks, so that you can prevent your resources from overload and avoid any bottlenecks related to resources’ unavailability. . Managing your resources’ load to make sure that your employees will be neither overloaded nor idle.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 19, 2023

For example, the activities team members participate in can overlap or it can turn out that you’ve assigned a task to an unavailable employee. Typical examples of schedule conflicts involve assigning tasks to unavailable employees or assigning two parallel tasks to one person (or double booking).

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 21, 2021

Imagine managing a project to improve communication between employees working remotely, and use these three steps to determine LOE: Decide how accurate your estimates must be: Accuracy is always important, but some projects demand a higher level of accuracy than others. When running an agile project, you need tools to support your sprints.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In the aerospace and defense industry, a lack of resources is one of the industry-specific challenges, so maximum efficient utilization of the existing employees gains even more importance. If resources are improperly planned for projects, it may seem that there’s demand for more employees. Manage changing requirements.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Project resources can be divided into three categories: human resources (employees with necessary skills), material resources (equipment, facilities, materials, tools), financial resources (funds required for successful project completion). The results of efficient resource management are as follows: . Resource allocation .

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Teamweek

JULY 24, 2024

Doing so requires an understanding of the time your employees spend carrying out their daily tasks, the number of tasks they complete each day, their morale, and how they are allocated work. The objectives of a team productivity audit are increasing overall productivity by assessing workflows, employee performance, and resource utilization.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 24, 2022

What if you allocate resources to project tasks and realize that some employees are required for several assignments at the same time? So, the essential function of resource leveling is to resolve resource conflicts and prevent employees from overload. . It prevents employees from overload.

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Epicflow Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

In software development projects or any Agile environment, it’s typical to work with cross-functional teams consisting of employees with different roles (e.g., This feature allows for uniting all these employees working together and makes it possible to assign work to them, plan their capacity, assess team performance, and more.

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Epicflow Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

They may reduce the number of employees or their salaries/wages, close facilities, reduce investments, put digital transformation on hold, etc. In other words, an overworked employee will become a bottleneck. Let’s examine the typical errors in the section below.

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Resource Guru

MARCH 18, 2022

A seamless scheduling interface helps you adapt to shifting resource constraints Tackle more resource management challenges with our Work Life blog. A common resource management challenge is trying to strategically evaluate employee skillsets and use that information to find assignments where they’ll bring the most value to the project.

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Productivity Land

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll be discussing 5 best strategies to ensure data protection and privacy compliance for your business. From payment details to personal and demographic information, there’s a surge of data overload that needs to be taken care of. So, employee training will save the company from lots of fraud attacks.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 12, 2022

In a nutshell, resource allocation is the process of assigning employees to project tasks based on their skills, availability, and capacity as well as distribution of material resources (equipment, facilities, tools) across project tasks. Too large amount of data on employees’ skills, capacity, and availability. Resource conflicts .

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Inloox

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

You give your employees not only goals, but also the way to achieve them. Their daily work is overloaded with detail work and they suffer from the negative consequences of multitasking. Do micromanagement and employee development fit together? If you can't make status queries about a project at short intervals, you get restless.

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Epicflow Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

But it can be rather challenging to ensure timely project delivery and high-quality project outcomes, not to overload your employees, and create opportunities for profitability growth, especially when you have multiple projects in the pipeline and a limited number of employees. What is resource optimization?

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NimbleWork

JUNE 11, 2024

This can be done by joining a project management professional association that may offer training and networking opportunities or proactively seeking out learning opportunities via blogs, courses and webinars. The team’s well-being is important not only for the project, but also for the health and welfare of an organization’s employees.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It allows you to monitor the project’s workflow from start to finish and make sure that the project resources (employees, equipment, facilities, etc.) It allows you to analyze employees’ utilization rate and adjust it to the optimum level. . are utilized efficiently. . Scheduling the resources is important for the following reasons.

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Epicflow Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

At the same time, such a decision has its disadvantages – onboarding a new employee is costly and time-consuming, which is multiplied by current economic turbulence and uncertainty about the future. Finally, it will take about half a year before a company can pay off the investment in the new employee, says the research.

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Epicflow Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

At the same time, such a decision has its disadvantages – onboarding a new employee is costly and time-consuming, which is multiplied by current economic turbulence and uncertainty about the future. Finally, it will take about half a year before a company can pay off the investment in the new employee, says the research.

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Epicflow Blog

JULY 12, 2022

It means that the majority of employees will regularly use data in their work, including quick and efficient problem-solving. Customers, employees, and partners will get more advanced insights thanks to vast networks of connected devices that will transmit data and insights in real time. . Real-time data processing and delivery.

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It’s been a while since our last blog post about Epicflow’s latest updates , and we’ve developed a lot of new features since then. Another example is Epica notifying a project or resource manager about overload in certain groups or specific resources. You can send them reminders with just one click in the chatbox with Epica.

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Resource Guru

MARCH 31, 2022

When a full-time employee says they work 40 hours a week, they don’t actually spend all 40 hours engaged in productive tasks – that’s completely normal and shouldn’t surprise you. Still, many resource and project managers schedule employees as if they can work a full eight hours without a break. That’s a problem.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Don’t overload the team . Obviously, stressed and overloaded employees cannot be productive. Ensuring good project outcomes is only possible with employees’ balanced workload. . Timesheet is the table that shows the output produced by a group of resources or individual employees. See the coherent picture.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

The team members can focus on the most important assignments instead of switching from one task to another wasting their time and effort. It prevents employees from overload. As a rule, the resources’ capacity is limited and you cannot allocate an infinite number of employees to staff all projects.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Otherwise, they can result in scope creep, which in turn leads to rework, overloaded and disengaged employees, project delays, and cost overrun. . It also prevents employees from overload: it’s one of the serious issues that can significantly disrupt the work on a project and add to project costs. .

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NimbleWork

JUNE 7, 2024

Employee Satisfaction Score: This metric assesses the level of contentment and engagement among project team members. Employee satisfaction surveys can reveal valuable insights into team morale, workload management, and overall project experience. Select the Right Metrics Don’t get bogged down by a data overload.

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EasyProjects

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Identify the top 10% of your overloaded and underloaded staff. Determining which employees are overloaded allows management to reassign projects to other team members and keep a more balanced workload amongst the team. Having too many underloaded employees is clearly also bad for your bottom line. Work burnout is real.

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Epicflow Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

But it can be rather difficult to predict how many employees you’ll require to staff projects. What is more, in a multi-project environment, where you have to balance out the increasing number of project tasks and available employees, this challenge becomes even more significant and problematic. . Capacity Planning Steps.

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Resource Guru

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This continuous overallocation wreaks havoc on employees, projects, and budgets, leading to missed deadlines, staff churn, and lost money. It’s one thing to pick up an extra assignment now and then, but it’s another when team members are constantly overloaded with work. Your project schedules get derailed.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Otherwise, they can result in scope creep, which in turn leads to rework, overloaded and disengaged employees, project delays, and cost overrun. . It also prevents employees from overload: it’s one of the serious issues that can significantly disrupt the work on a project and add to project costs. Poor budget management.

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