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Making In-Depth Analysis with What-if Simulation: Check the Effect of Project Changes on Different Levels

To choose the best scenario, check the effect of the changes you make during the What-if Analysis session in the Pipeline, Future Load graph, and Historical Load graph.

Exploring the Project Level with the Pipeline

Make changes and see an immediate effect in the Pipeline: projects’ colors and priorities will be revised. But examining this is not enough: it can happen that your projects are “green”, but you still have a problem at another level. The next step is researching the resource level.

Exploring the Resource Level with the Future Load Graph

It may happen that at the project level, your progress is fine, but at the resource level, it’s not. Even one resource group can cause the delay of all projects, but this effect will be visible too late when almost anything can’t be changed. The Future Load graph shows the resource workload and helps predict bottlenecks before they arise and jeopardize your projects.

If there’s just one overloaded group in your environment, and the projects in the Pipeline are blue and green (meaning there’s enough buffer time), in just a couple of months, there will be at least a couple of overloaded groups and missed milestones. Imagine what can happen in half a year!

Therefore, the right way to guarantee the successful delivery of your projects is to make sure no one is overloaded. And the Future Load graph, together with What if analysis software, ensure the success of your projects with just a few clicks.

Sometimes you can see underload on the Future Load graph but can’t understand its origin because resources’ availability is usual. Then you can go to the Historical Load graph and check other variables: capacity, load, and ready-to-start tasks.

Historical load graph

On the Historical Load graph, you can detect overloaded and idle resource groups and use this data to balance their workload.

If one resource group is idle due to the other’s group’s overload, they can’t start their work and can’t complete it on time. As a result, this group becomes overloaded, too. This is caused by task dependency in a multi-project environment. You can see this on the graph, but you can hardly detect this gap manually.

Implementing Changes Based on the Analysis Results

You can download the simulation results by copying them to a clipboard or as a CSV file.

• As soon as you find the best scenario, just switch off the What-if Analysis mode and implement the changes that showed the best results.
• If no optimal solution is found, just ignore the transformations and initiate a new session when more related details appear.
• You can also save as many scenarios as you need right in the system and then play them and compare the results to choose the best one.

What’s important: Epicflow automatically schedules project plans as soon as new data appears in the system, which makes it super-easy to use different variables and “ask” Epicflow to make all calculations.