Epicflow Blog Category Page - Project Management
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...
How to Create a Project Timeline in 6 Steps: A Quick Guide
The success of any project largely depends on the efficiency of its initial planning and tracking its progress. In project management, there’s a variety of tools that make it possible to plan project work...
Eating an Elephant One Bite At a Time: What Are Deliverables in Project Management?
We all know how difficult it can be to approach a large new endeavor. For example, standing in the middle of a messy house may seem overwhelming, but if you tidy the rooms one...
8 Essential Project Management Documents You Need to Know About
Project management involves creating lots of documentation. If you look into project management standards, you will find at least a dozen of various plans, multiple types of reports, and numerous other documents. The good...
Creating a Work Breakdown Structure: What You Need to Know
Initial project phases play an important role for the success of further project management work. One of the essential activities as part of these phases is developing a work breakdown structure that becomes the...
Becoming a Successful Project Manager: 5 Tips to Achieve Professional Goals and Objectives
Being a successful project manager is not just about creating good plans and schedules and telling the team members what they should work on. It also requires proper coordination of people and processes, the...
Why No Miracle Happens: Typical Mistakes in Work with a Resource Management Solution and How to Avoid Them
It sometimes happens that an organization invests in implementing a resource management solution. But the results of this endeavor are far from satisfactory – the projects are still late and exceed the budget, team...