Epicflow Blog

JUNE 10, 2022

missing important milestones, unavailability of a critical employee), Estimating (e.g., unrealistic or inaccurate estimates), Communicating (miscommunication between the project participants). [1]. Risk analysis involves estimating the probability of risk occurrence and the impact of the defined risks. Managing the supply chain.

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Planio

MAY 22, 2023

Review your product backlog and rank features 5. Estimate the work and plan the release dates 6. This includes software testing, the creation of release notes, and any training or guidance material for users. Work with stakeholders to define your product vision & strategy 2. Consider your organization’s release capability (i.e.,

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Resource Guru

JUNE 16, 2022

If you’re looking to switch from your current project management processes and explore new solutions to streamline your daily tasks, there are plenty of software options out there to help you. Resource Guru – Best project management software to manage team workloads and productivity. Why users love Resource Guru (G2 reviews).

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups. If you’re also interested in Agile project management, pair the PMBOK with the PMI’s new Agile Practice Guide or our own Guide on How to Pick the Software Development Process that’s Right For you. Published date: 2008 (revised edition). Author: Harvard Business Review.

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Paymo App

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The tools that made the shortlist are, in no particular order (click on each one to jump directly to the review): Basecamp. Reviews: Read what other people say about the tools. Look for reviews on independent platforms like Capterra and G2Crowd. These were the main factors we took into account when reviewing the products.

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Resource Guru

JUNE 23, 2023

Between tabs, color codes, and comments, the time spent on admin is valuable time that could be spent (actually) enabling project success. We’re here to help you evaluate and choose the best software that will help enable growth at your agency. Far too many agencies are still using spreadsheets to manage high-stakes projects.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." Macroeconomics is not. .

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty.

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Resource Guru

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We’ve put together a list of five top-rated Float alternatives based on customer reviews. On leading software review sites like G2 , the issues echo far and wide as Float falls further behind its main competitor Resource Guru. Schedule design The schedule is the heartbeat of any resource scheduling software.

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PM Times

APRIL 7, 2021

2016) state “However, our review of the literature reveals that such broad generalized statements about project complexity to be somewhat inadequate or incomplete, in terms of providing any guidance for project management practice or the development of appropriate tools and techniques to deal with complexity”. Kiridena, S. & Sense, A.,

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

The paper on the Cone of Uncertainty is used by many in the No Estimates community as an example of why estimates are of little use. In this paper, there is data that does not follow the Cone of Uncertainty, in that the uncertainty of the estimates does not reduce as the project proceeds. Then there is some analysis.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. But is can be ANY variance for the program, including confidence in the estimates of future performance - cost, schedule, or technical performance. This usually results in a project's actual costs far outrunning the optimistic estimates and creating a large overrun.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Estimation is part of project management. . The most important estimates for the project manager are related to time and cost. . Since it is easier to estimate small tasks, these estimates are often calculated and performed as point estimates, for example, a task will take 3 days.

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ProProfs Project Management

MAY 12, 2021

Fortunately, these days, both companies and individuals have several options when it comes to project management software. Trello is a project and task management software based on the Kanban productivity system. The software has steadily grown in popularity ever since its inception and now has over 35 million users worldwide.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. Regards other researchers as idiotic, and always operates outside the peer review system.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Agile Software Development (#ASD). Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).

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Herding Cats

JULY 8, 2018

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. Regards other researchers as idiotic, and always operates outside the peer review system.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review 28

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). This is due to many reasons. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Resource Guru

AUGUST 10, 2023

We’ve curated a selection of tools based on category and customer reviews. per person per month Master: Starts at $10 per person per month “With the Guru software we get better insights into our daily planning. That said, there’s an abundance of tools for agencies to choose from. per person per month Blackbelt: Starts at $6.65

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Workzone

AUGUST 4, 2021

This list of alternatives for Asana the project management software will help you identify which project management software you should be using. We’re going to share the top Asana alternative, Workzone, pros and cons of Asana, and 24 other software solutions so you can decide which option is worth researching further.

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Wrike

MAY 19, 2021

Business model canvas explained “Lengthy business plans often increase the risk of failure,” wrote Alex Osterwalder in his 2008 book “Business Model Generation.” Promotes focus on the unique value proposition of your business 19% of companies fail due to being outperformed by their competitors.

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Teamweek

MAY 21, 2020

But before that let’s understand what features you should look for before signing up for a project management software. Wouldn’t you rather focus on shipping software, delivering designs, introducing new product features, or launching marketing campaigns? Trello started in 2011 as a tool for software development teams.

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Leading Answers

AUGUST 29, 2020

Eric Ries documented his lean startup methodology in 2008 as a way for organizations to adapt and experiment with new ideas and perform market tests. All the major auto manufacturers reported far fewer sales in Q1 and Q2 due to factory shutdowns and a lack of customers. It could already be happening.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. (Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. requires making estimates) ? reducible and irreducible ?

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