Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This guide will help you dive deeper into the nuances of engineering projects, learn the fundamentals of engineering project management, navigate its complexity, and still deliver engineering projects successfully. What is Engineering Project Management? Agile methodology.

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Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Define your scope, break it down into manageable tasks, and assign them to your team. How do you engage and get the most out of your underperformers? So, what’s the secret to maintaining your heavy workload without your team feeling overwhelmed? Team vs. personal workload management. Workload management.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

What is the optimal size of a team? Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? Is scaling always a bad idea? Of all the impediments that a team faces, which is the one to focus on first? So where do you find it?

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Planio

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As Steve Jobs famously put it, a small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players. Jump to a section: How to hire remote developers (and other teammates) in 10 steps. Step 1: Decide if it’s the right time to hire remote developers. But getting them to join your team is a skill on its own.

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iZenBridge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Let’s look at a case study for the Development of Histogram as Quality Control Example: To make a histogram, we need a check sheet as an input. An IT test team member is evaluating work products from specifications to detect problems. pressman in software engineering a practitioner’s approach.

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Leading Agile

MAY 25, 2023

I invited them here to have a conversation with me because I was out with clients doing presale stuff and working with executives on the teams and the conversation around full stack teams, software craftsmanship, clean coding, different strategies for how to get developers engaged and involved was coming up.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 10, 2018

There’s an assumption that silos are a bad thing. For instance, in product development, the mechanical engineers don’t need to sit in on schematic reviews with the electrical engineers or code reviews with the software developers. For example, imagine you’re running a factory.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 17, 2018

We’ve had a bad habit at our house over the years. The connection with software development/maintenance is probably obvious. Tying Up Loose Ends in Software. Keeping code clean at all times really ought to be considered baseline job performance for a software engineer. Tying Up Loose Ends at Home.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 18, 2018

I remember joining a team in the late 1970s that supported an application used worldwide by a large corporation. The team resolved to drive that number down. Some examples are rather beautiful, in their own way. I guess that worked out okay for a generation of developers. This may be a consequence of rushing the work.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Say, for example, you’re leading a project to create a new mobile app. You gather project requirements and put together a team of developers, product managers, and creatives. Your team delivered a functioning app but failed to meet users’ expectations. Requirements analysis in software engineering .

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PM Basics

JULY 1, 2020

For sure, the easiest way to become a software project manager is by getting a promotion inside an IT company. So, if you are just starting your career, I strongly recommend getting a job on an IT project in any other capacity like QA, Developer, DevOps, Business Analyst, or a Scrum Master. 10 to 15 people on the project team.

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

According to the Project Management Institute’s Pulse of the Profession survey , 81% of top-performing companies prioritize the development of technical project management skills. Next, ask your team questions. If you can’t walk the walk with your development team, they’re going to reject your suggestions.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2020

A project manager is responsible for communicating with clients, stakeholders, and team members. The knowledge of the following software will significantly simplify PM’s work: MS Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Teams, Project CCPM; Learning platforms and applications (MindTickle, Brainshark); GSuite, Sendgrid, LMS [4].

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Leading Agile

JUNE 27, 2018

A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. You probably spotted my error immediately.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In working with technical people at the individual and team levels, I often find attitudes that pull toward one extreme or the other: Either our work is inherently uninteresting, and we’re only in it for the paycheck; or our work is a boundless source of joy, learning, and achievement through which we can transcend the human condition.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and management. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. At a minimum, at the end of every week, a Scrum team assess physical percent complete at the end of the Sprint. Standish Number.

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Teamweek

JUNE 24, 2020

It makes perfect sense then that app developers are some of the most sought-after specialists on the market. When 75% of businesses report a shortage of app developers on their team, knowing how to hire app developers can make or break your whole project. What is an app developer? What makes a great app developer?

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Teamweek

APRIL 12, 2023

If your team finds the screening and selection process frustrating, Toggl Hire offers an all-in-one platform for screening, assessing, and hiring candidates based on their actual skills ! Help your team pick out the real talent, fast. For example, hands-on experience with C# programing.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

We all dream of reaching maximum success with our teams and projects, even though project failure is common. Business drivers have to be translated into project drivers by a strong technical team, not management. Read more: Examples of Lessons Learned in Construction Projects. Perform Risk Management.

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PM Basics

MAY 16, 2022

Below you’ll find a full guide on how to become a software PM. TL;DR: The steps to becoming a software project manager. Develop technical proficiency. Develop your interview skills. That’s an overall approach that will make you a software project manager. You need to develop curiosity in regard to new technologies.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. There was another study done that shows that 122 million wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance, a 12% increase over the previous years. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If, for example, a project manager believes a member of his or her team is a fast and effective worker, each time that team member works fast and effectively or is told by a colleague about the work that has been done fast and effectively, the project manager will consider his or her belief to be well-founded. What To Do Next?

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

OPM3 was developed by the experts of the Project Management Institute, so it’s considered as a standard for achieving organizational PM maturity. The Project Management Maturity Model developed by PM Solutions Consulting Company is a two-dimensional framework. MMM is one of the recently developed models.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and business management. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy, since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. The notion of waterfall development on slide 9 as actually prohibited in our domain. Have you done a Root Cause Analysis?

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Leading Agile

JUNE 4, 2024

What if, instead of getting larger and more brittle over time, making changes more risky, your software could get more modular and simpler, increasing the safety of the developers working on the code? The key to soft software is focusing on creating that safety first. How many of you used to be a developer?

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Planio

APRIL 16, 2020

Out of the nearly 90,000 people who took StackOverflow’s latest developer survey , the majority said the greatest challenge to their productivity is a distracting work environment. Batch your communication time (and set clear expectations with your team). Unfortunately, we’re pretty bad at making that distinction.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

This makes no sense for any development project beyond a de minimis project. 50], [397] DSM relates entities with each other in ways schedules cannot, for example, the tasks that constitute a complete program. It can be used to identify appropriate teams, work groups, and a sequence of how the tasks can be arranged.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

Melanie here with team MPUG. He has 30 years as a new product development project management professional. He has lead projects that introduce durable goods, create hardware and software, integrate hardware and software and he’s brought up manufacturing facilities globally. Melanie: Hello.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. We use Vitech's Core.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 7, 2018

This makes no sense for any development project beyond a de minimis project. 50], [397] DSM relates entities with each other in ways schedules cannot, for example, the tasks that constitute a complete program. It can be used to identify appropriate teams, work groups, and a sequence of how the tasks can be arranged.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Before listening to any conjecture that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of Uncertainty for software development, please read these books. What are we looking for? Reading Materials.

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Paymo App

JULY 16, 2018

Unfortunately, not having one is still common in practice for smaller teams in particular. Picture this: Your task list is forever growing, new team members are showing up every three weeks, and your client is always asking for last minute changes. Selecting project team members. Chaos, chaos, and again chaos. Organizing tasks.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Each company, from its departments to its teams, should have a clear structure that outlines all roles and responsibilities. The American programmer’s adage resonated with many in the field of software engineering and continues to have an impact today. The way you do one thing is the way you do everything, as the saying goes.

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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

For example, the very first tile here, how the customer explained it. This is from the PMI, pulse of profession survey and it says that 47% of unsuccessful projects fail to meet original goals due to poor requirements. Why is there a 30% failure rate that are the result of inaccurate requirements gathering or poor requirements.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. This is a common problem in low maturity development organizations. Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Either the team itself, the Project or Program Manager, or on larger programs the Risk Management owner. .

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