Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 28, 2024

Jan Willem started his career in production and supply chain environments as an internal and external consultant and then changed his focus to project management. Being certified as a TOC (Theory of Constraints) expert, he’s a partner of the Goldratt Implementation Group, Europe (GIG).

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Redbooth

MARCH 13, 2018

In this short guide, we’ll look at several established project management systems, including PERT, Critical Path, and Critical Chain, to help you find new ways to make your next project a success. In the 1950s, we saw the rise of PERT, Critical Path, and Work Breakdown Structures. Critical Chain: adding a buffer.

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Epicflow Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

Being certified as a TOC expert, Albert has been a partner of the Goldratt Implementation Group Europe (GIG) since 2003. As a consultant, he also implemented TOC’s Critical Chain application in various project organizations. Having defended his Ph.D.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Scrum is a project management technique that comes from a group of processes known as the Agile Development Framework. With an appointed Scrum Master leading the discussions, the group decides how to get rid of obstacles blocking the project from being completed in the best way possible. Critical Chain Project Management.

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Epicflow Blog

APRIL 14, 2020

It’s commonly believed that the term has been introduced in the novel “Critical Chain” by Eliyahu M. In Critical Chain Project Management that originates from the Theory of Constraints, they use buffers to reduce the Student Syndrome. What Is Student Syndrome? Project Management-Based Ways to Eliminate Student Syndrome.

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Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

All project management methodologies, from critical chain to Scrum, require project managers to introduce their team to the project in some way. . Additionally, some team members might not feel fully comfortable sharing their initial questions or thoughts in a group setting for a variety of reasons.

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Epicflow Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

So, let’s take a closer look at the Epicflow’s features that help improve project workflows and describe one feature per each group as an illustrative example. . The most critical tasks are marked with colors and given specific numbers indicating the task’s priority, so that everyone knows what to work on first.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Read more: Bubble Graph: Critical Chain Fever Chart Re-Imagined. Timesheet is the table that shows the output produced by a group of resources or individual employees. Tracking teams’ progress. Epicflow provides several options for its monitoring.

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Proofhub

JUNE 11, 2019

Gantt chart example for a construction project All the phases of a general construction project are narrowed down to a group of tasks that may or may not be dependent on each other for their successful completion. Fortunately, a Gantt chart allows you to easily organize and group tasks together for smooth event planning.

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Proofhub

AUGUST 25, 2020

Here are some examples of some project management techniques you could consider applying to your project: Agile methodology, Critical chain methodology, Scrum, and Waterfall. ProofHub is one such software that allows you to report, communicate through chats and group chats, and review work through annotation with proofing tools.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Closing the project means wrapping up all the activities across all the project management process groups. Find out more details about this feature: Bubble Graph: Critical Chain Fever Chart Re-Imagined. Finally, in the Timesheet, you can track the output produced by a group or individual team members over a certain period.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 27, 2019

Epicflow is very flexible with organizing resource groups: you can create geographical groups based on people’s location and functional groups based on people’s role in the company. Resource load versus availability can be viewed per group and per individual resource. Future Load Graph.

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Even one overloaded resource or the one that doesn’t work according to their capacity negatively affects the whole group. Read more: Bubble Graph: Critical Chain Fever Chart Re-Imagined. This hampers optimal workflow and decreases overall performance.

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Critical Chain. Critical Path. Besides, specialized groups in social networks can also help you boost your PM knowledge, where you can take part in discussions and become familiar with PM trends and innovations. The methodology is a set of methods and rules to be guided by in a particular kind of activity. .

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 9, 2023

And so like back in the day, you know, we had, you know, whether it be rational, unified process or scrum or say for XP or whatever, but before that critical chain project management, we had Lean concepts. You know, Six Sigma was, was all the rage.

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PM Basics

APRIL 17, 2022

The scheduling model is the critical path method in our case. But, you may need to use the PERT technique or critical chain method as an alternative. Likewise, you want to schedule tasks in groups as they go in a work package. Whatever the case, it should allow the implementation of the scheduling method.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 17, 2022

The method was flawed, the financial group was only worried about cutting costs, management did not make a full commitment, there was not enough training. Like any group facing a crisis, the organization has to acknowledge it exists, even if they are standing in front of it. How could this happen? As a reader, you know these excuses.

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ActiveCollab

APRIL 25, 2017

It covers group chemistry, work environment, corporate entropy, workspace theory, and more. Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. The author applies Theory of Constraints to project management and illustrates the Critical Chain method for managing projects through story. This book is written as a business novel.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You’re more of a Lean, doing some of the Oh gosh, what was the, critical chain project management? – Critical chain project management? I can, get the gains and not lose when I have the problems, So how do I build a critical chain project plan to deliver? – Yeah. – Yeah. – Yeah.

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ActiveCollab

APRIL 3, 2017

It covers group chemistry, work environment, corporate entropy, workspace theory, and more. The Goal / Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. They teach important project management concepts - theory of constraints and critical chain - through story. The book examines the social side of software development.

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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. Next, they came to the white board, brought all their points and grouped them together.

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Epicflow Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Read more: Bubble Graph: Critical Chain Fever Chart Re-Imagined. It shows you the capacity for your groups or resources and designed to help project managers see the actual capacity of the employees in comparison to their load and output. Group Management. Group Risk Factor. Bubble Graph. Budget View . Dashboard.

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MPUG

JANUARY 4, 2021

At the turn of the millennium, software projects were mostly organized in a Waterfall way and were reported to have poor results (Standish Group reports). In 2001, a group of software thought-leaders got together and hammered out the Agile Manifesto. Critical Path, Resource Critical Path, Critical Chain, Earned Value, Earned Work, etc.)

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MPUG

APRIL 15, 2022

The initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, as well as closing that we would typically call process groups within, which the advised knowledge areas are practiced really was kind of like, “Okay, here’s where you start. Here’s what comes next. Here’s what’s after that.” Speaker 3:Great.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Hybrid, Critical Chain, Critical Path, Kanban, Scrum, Six Sigma, Waterfall [3]. In addition, joining some LinkedIn groups will be useful: Project Manager (PM) Network , Project Manager Community , PMI Project, Program, and Portfolio Management [7]. 9 LinkedIn Groups for Project Managers to Join.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

So I have spoken about a number of scheduling approaches, such as you have critical parts method or critical chain method. So it is the format in the ribbon, format tab, under that we have format group, under that I used layout command. You have rolling web planning, you have on-demand scheduling or lean scheduling.

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Epicflow Blog

JULY 17, 2020

Besides, in a multi-project environment, it’s handy to unite multiple resources into groups and these groups into multigroups based on their common characteristics and skills. Read more: Bubble Graph: Critical Chain Fever Chart Re-Imagined. So, when looking for an MPM tool, consider these opportunities as well. .

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Change Authority: The authority (an individual or a group of individuals) who can authorize a change request in a project. Critical Chain Method: A method for scheduling projects with uncertain deadlines and limited resources. A network diagram is a critical tool for project scheduling. to analyze a network diagram.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

is a research of a certain unit, such as a person, a company, a project, a social group to trace the peculiarities of the development or trends in connection with the environment for further comparison with a larger unit or, on the contrary, a smaller one. Critical Activities . are critical path planned activities. Case Study .

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Epicflow Blog

JULY 14, 2020

Read more: Bubble Graph: Critical Chain Fever Chart Re-Imagined. Besides, you can control not only the availability and capacity of individual resources but also their groups. Fever Chart is a graph with three colors (green, yellow, and red) that shows projects’ progress over time against buffer time and project constraints.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

is a research of a certain unit, such as a person, a company, a project, a social group to trace the peculiarities of the development or trends in connection with the environment for further comparison with a larger unit or, on the contrary, a smaller one. Critical Activities . are critical path planned activities. Case Study .

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Jeff: Here are our process groups. When we talk about crashing or we talk about the overall let’s say critical chain theory, although that won’t literally say critical chain, but we’re talking about reserves and understanding estimates along those lines that definitely it is addressed here.

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