Epicflow Blog Category Page - Project Management
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...
Tracking Performance: Switching from Project to Resource Level
When your project is in progress, you as a project manager or business leader will definitely want to know how things are going and have an opportunity to check it at any moment. But...
Cost Overrun in Aerospace and Defense: The Main Causes and How to Prevent Them
No project is immune to factors that may result in cost overrun – from a mistake made by a team member that will extend a project’s timeline to force-majeure events like pandemic or war. ...
Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success
Do you know your organization's project management maturity level? If not, it’s high time to change the situation: project management maturity has a direct impact on a company’s competitiveness and business success. What is...
A Business Case in Project Management: Why Start a Project?
Whatever great idea is behind a project, it won’t be implemented without stakeholders’ buy-in and investment. To get their support and approval, they need to understand what value an initiative will bring to their...