Epicflow Blog Category Page - Project Management
8 Tips on Reducing Project Costs
Reduction of project costs and at least avoiding significant cost overrun is one of the high-priority tasks for a project manager as it helps to avoid unnecessary expenses and significantly impacts project profitability. However,...
Project Baseline in Project Management: A Starting Point to Monitor Performance
When managing a project, it’s hardly possible to stick to the original plan without making any changes to it throughout the entire project lifecycle. In most cases, changes are inevitable and even necessary, as...
All About Scope Creep: Causes, Consequences, and Tips on Preventing It
Scope creep is a common challenge that project managers have to deal with. In an effort to make the project’s final outcome perfect and satisfy customers, project managers/team members/stakeholders may be unable to leave...
Dealing With Project Dependencies In a Multi-Project Environment
Projects don’t exist in isolation: even a single project involves dependencies between its tasks and depends on a number of other internal and external factors. As for a multi-project environment, it’s a complicated system...
Project Risk Management: Importance, Challenging Issues, Recommendations
Risk is often perceived as a potential hazard or something that should be better avoided. However, we all know that the road to success is fraught with risk, as it’s often associated with new...
Infographic: Challenges in Various Types of Projects
Project management involves work with various types of projects. Despite that every project is unique with its combination of activities, people, constraints, external factors, etc., it can also have similar features with other projects....
Project Management In Education: Specific Challenges and Ways of Addressing Them
Live and learn – this proverb has never been so relevant as in the 21st century. Your education isn’t over when you graduate from a university: being a highly skilled specialist and a healthy...
The Human Side of Project Management: How to Deal with Behavioral Aspects Affecting Your Success
Any project is vulnerable to risks and uncertainties that sometimes can’t be predicted and avoided. But there are things that negatively affect the project success but can be neither controlled nor prevented. We’re talking...
Scrum Methodology: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Ways of Handling Possible Issues
Agile methods and Scrum in particular remain at the top of most used approaches to managing projects in multiple spheres. As stated in the 17th State of Agile Report, Scrum is the most widely...