Epicflow Blog Category Page - Project Management
How to Improve Operational Efficiency in Project-Based Organizations
In the present-day turbulent economic situation, cost optimization has become one of the top priorities for business organizations. Among other things, this can be achieved by improving a company’s operational efficiency. What is it...
A Phase-Gate Process in Project Management: Questions and Answers
There are a variety of approaches and methodologies aimed to increase the effectiveness of managing projects and deliver better outcomes. Each of them comes with specific advantages and disadvantages, which makes them suitable for...
Critical Success Factors in Multi-Project Management
What do you need to achieve successful delivery of every project in a multi-project environment? In the flow of tasks, milestones, dependencies, resources, etc., it’s very easy to lose focus of what matters most...
Schedule Conflicts: Their Causes and Ways to Prevent Them
Schedule conflicts belong to the typical challenges of managing multiple projects with a shared resource pool. For example, the activities team members participate in can overlap or it can turn out that you’ve assigned...
Top 4 Challenges for a Project Management Office (PMO) and Ways to Address Them
According to a recent report by Wellingltone, 82% of business organizations have a project management office. And that’s no wonder – an effectively working PMO can streamline a company’s project management processes, improve their...
How to Tame Uncertainty of Research and Development: Tips on Managing R&D Projects
If we needed to choose one word that best describes R&D projects, it would be “uncertainty” – they have so many changing elements and their outcomes are often hard to predict. Nevertheless, this doesn't...
A Quick Guide to Essential Project Management Metrics
When managing a project, it’s vitally important to regularly monitor its state: whether or not it has deviated from the approved schedule and budget; how much work has been completed and how much is...
Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books
Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – courses, books, education websites, blogs, etc....
Setting Priorities in a Multi-Project Environment: What You Need to Know
In our hectic world, where you have many irons in the fire, prioritization is the only key to getting things done successfully. The same is true for project management. When you have a dozen...
