Epicflow Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

At present, the construction industry is undergoing a substantial transformation. Innovations, economic uncertainty, construction workforce shortages, and other factors have forced building companies to change the way they work and deliver their projects. damage or cracking on buildings). [2] damage or cracking on buildings). [2]

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

Project management is a growing industry and one that offers great opportunities for people of all skills and experience. It is a discipline that is used across industries as varied as construction, manufacturing and IT to healthcare, professional services and government. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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Inloox

JANUARY 14, 2021

Construction project management is considered one of the original forms of today's project management. With the construction of their pyramids, which were over a hundred meters high, they literally laid the foundation for the possibilities of construction as we know it today. Let's start with the basics.

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Construction Sustainability Finance 2015 164

Inloox

MAY 30, 2022

Incompetence in project management. Lack of risk management. Large-scale construction projects in particular are subject to numerous uncertainties due to their complexity and the time involved. Public construction projects require approval. External influences. Intentional miscalculation.

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Infrastructure Construction Software Review 2014 235

ProjectManager.com

JULY 12, 2023

There are many project management software products available on the market. Oracle Primavera Cloud (OPC) is a project, program and portfolio management software. The software integrates project and portfolio planning with teams, resourcing and risk management as well as scheduling.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

When you’re a PMP, program manager or portfolio manager, you need to deliver all those multiple projects on time and within budget. This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. This is done by using a project management maturity model. What Is Project Management Maturity?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

Are you wondering whether it’s worth getting a degree in project management? Or what you can do with a project management degree for a job once you finish your bachelor’s or master’s studies? Recently someone got in contact with me to ask about how to become a project manager. “Do I need a degree in project management?”

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Technical Review Prince2 Healthcare Certification 336

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

Where is artificial intelligence taking project management? AI has turned up in the project management trends articles over the past few years and it’s now most definitely here to stay. The impacts of artificial intelligence in project management. PWC predicts that 80% of project management work will be eliminated by 2030.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 18, 2023

Admittedly, that data set is mainly large-scale civil construction, but with around two-thirds of projects coming in two months or more late, you have to acknowledge there is a delivery problem. It’s likely that the issue is reflected in non-major construction projects too. First up: crashing. What does it mean to crash your schedule?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 2, 2022

The mission of a project portfolio manager is clear enough: maximize the business benefits of projects. In this article, you’ll learn the top 5 key considerations and knowledge areas under which the main criteria for managing a project portfolio can be grouped. How to execute the approach, that’s where the devil lies.

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Technical Review Risk Management Governance Government 355

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

All of these things and more make them a perfect candidate for business project management. Let’s first explore the definition of business project management. Then, we’ll look at the role of a business project manager and the types of projects that a business will manage. What Is Business Project Management?

Software Review 370

Software Review Monitoring Technical Review Risk Management 370

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2021

Are you wondering whether it’s worth getting a degree in project management? What can you do with a degree in project management? The simple answer is: you can get a job as a project manager. About 16% of project management jobs require a degree (not necessarily a project management degree). Let’s dive in!

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Technical Review PMO Healthcare Retail 393

Inloox

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Know the risks in your project! Risk management plays an enormously important role in project management. The task here is to identify, analyze, control and ultimately minimize risks. The better risk management is handled in your project, the greater the probability of success, all other things being equal.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 24, 2023

When it comes to managing them effectively, understanding the differences between projects and operations is key. Ops managers want (and seek) stability so they can manage process performance. The status quo is good but project managers keep changing things! Projects change the business. Operations run the business.

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Retail Governance Government Healthcare 407

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 27, 2020

The project management job descriptions you see in profiles on LinkedIn might not represent exactly what you would do in the role. That’s because project managers do so many different things! A general project management job description. Here’s an example job purpose for project managers. Job purpose. Environment.

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The Lazy Project Manager

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

How would you categorize construction, architecture and engineering companies? If you think about it, the construction, architecture and engineering part of it is just about the type of projects they do. Project Management as a Central Component of a Project Business. As such I am delighted to share these articles with you.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Project management standards such as the PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition state that contingency reserves, which are established to offset the cost or schedule impacts of realized identified risks, are considered part of the project budget and cost baseline. This matches my own experience from the previous two companies I worked for.

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Risk Management PMI Construction Budget 328

ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Controlling process manufacturing production is assisted by project management software. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software with powerful Gantt charts that plan out the entire process of manufacturing step by step to ensure everything is done properly. For one, it’s cost-effective.

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Manufacturing Process Controlling Monitoring 377

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 29, 2021

Risks matter. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. However, at the beginning of your project when your risk log is empty, it can be a bit of a challenge to think of all the stuff that might need to go on there.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 27, 2019

While they don’t manage the day-to-day operations of a project, they are above the project manager in terms of project hierarchy. According to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), the project sponsor is “a person or group who provides resources and support for the project, program or portfolio for enabling success.”.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

Can project management software facilitate this work? This is a tool used more often by public entities such as local governments for major public expenditures. Construction expansion or a major renovation of a public facility, such as a library or sewage treatment plan, are also targets of capital improvement plans.

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Planning Finance Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 329

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 17, 2020

Most project managers will have experienced a situation where they have found a stakeholder to be really difficult. This often causes stress and it’s challenging for project managers to find ways to deal with it. What happens instead is that they create situations which are challenging for the project manager.

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Technical Review Governance Government 2016 404

ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

It is the phase where you will construct your deliverables and present them to your customer and key stakeholders. Project execution’s key purpose is to complete the work defined in the project management plan and to meet key project objectives. During this phase a project leader will focus on these key processes: Managing people.

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Executing Project Life Cycle Software Review Technical Review 500

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2022

The Channel Tunnel construction project saw its budget rise from £4.8 What is missing in the project management profession is a willingness for organizations to talk about why individual projects fail. Image © Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body – 2007 This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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Technical Review 2007 Software Review 2005 264

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 17, 2022

The project manager is on the ground, running the team and keeping the daily operations of a project running smoothly. But who looks after the project manager? In project management, that position is called a project director. Project management tends to be a hierarchical methodology that has numerous tiers of command.

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Finance Monitoring Technical Review Software Review 284

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A program is a collection of projects that relate to one another, and are therefore managed together in order to achieve maximum efficiencies. The advantages of managing these similar projects make them stand better together than by themselves. Program Management vs Project Management. What is a Program Management Plan?

Planning 408

Planning Executing Defining Budget 408

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

In this article, we’ll dive into the statistics and you’ll learn: The top challenges facing people managing several projects at once The key skills required for managing multiple projects The top tools for prioritizing work day-to-day. This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Risk Management Engineering 373

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 28, 2019

One of the first things that project managers learn on training courses is that a project has a start, a middle and an end. Don’t be the project manager that lets a project go on and on by accepting every scope change and picking up all the operational work as well as the requests for new functionality, additions or improvements.

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Underperforming Technical Team PMO 2010 Governance 268

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 11, 2023

” They did it with construction management. Construction is, of course, a project, one that tends to be long, complex and involves many different parties to deliver. In order to control all those moving parts, construction professionals use construction management for all project delivery methods.

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Construction Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Engineering 287

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2020

We aren’t managing projects now in the same way that people managed projects years ago. The approaches taken by many companies and professional bodies to managing projects are different now to when I first started out in the field in 2000ish. How long has project management been around? Technology.

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2008 Leadership Manufacturing PMI 355

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 5, 2023

There’s much to plan in construction. For example, the construction site. The building site requires site inspection, construction site safety and more. Let’s take a closer look at this often-neglected side of construction project management. What Is a Construction Site? What Is Site Planning?

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Construction Software Review Planning Infrastructure 298

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 22, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you struggling to effectively manage your projects amidst evolving requirements and stakeholder expectations? Project management involves various critical functions, from ensuring seamless coordination to task deadlines, articulating clear objectives, and managing resources.

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Governance Government Technical Review Initiating 52

Scrum.org

MARCH 23, 2022

Work would be taken to teams and hand-offs would be tightly managed. Allow for self-management by providing freedom, guard rails, and goals. Self-management does not just happen when you say “go and self-manage” it requires careful nurturing and support to build the right level of trust. . Question all overhead. .

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Lean PMO Construction Risk Management 213

Henny Portman

JULY 19, 2023

To support portfolios, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA, UK Government) has the mandate to periodically (every two to three years) review departmental portfolios to provide assurance and practical recommendations for improvement. monitor and respond to performance and risk across the portfolio. Performance and risk.

Governance 52

Governance Government Infrastructure Risk Management 52

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In this article, we’ll dive into the statistics and you’ll learn: The top challenges facing people managing several projects at once The key skills required for managing multiple projects The top tools for prioritizing work day-to-day. This wasn’t a survey about project portfolio management at the PMO level.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Risk Management Engineering 347

Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

If you work in project management, your job isn’t done until your users are happy — but that isn’t always the case. As every project manager knows, it’s almost impossible to get from A to B on a project without something going wrong. Consider your risks and put controls in place Step 6. Risk approach. Team accountability.

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Planning Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Software Developers 88

Moira Alexander

MAY 2, 2017

To align business goals with project management (PM), leaders from the enterprise project management office (EMPO) or project management office (PMO) need to be involved in strategic planning sessions alongside senior-level management. are done properly thus minimizing technology risk.". A big win for business.

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Technical Review PMO Sustainability Risk Management 249