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Jira: Benefits, Limitations, and Ways to Overcome Them

Epicflow

Jira: Main Capabilities and Advantages Jira is agile project management software intended to plan and orchestrate software development projects. The solution is also used for managing other types of projects, e.g., for any Agile teams, product development, or bug tracking teams. Supporting Agile approach.

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Engineering Project Management: The Essential Guide

Epicflow

Agile methodology. In contrast to Waterfall, Agile is a flexible iterative approach, which was initially developed for software engineering but has gained popularity in other types of engineering projects. The main characteristics of this approach are responsiveness to changes, continuous collaboration, and frequent value delivery.

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Fit to Role: Aligning Skills and Job Requirements for Optimal Performance

Effective Managers

Strategies for Enhancing Fit to Role Comprehensive Job Analysis : Conduct detailed job analyses to understand the requirements of each role fully. This analysis should include not only the necessary skills and qualifications but also the behavioral traits and cultural fit needed.

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Top 15 Capacity Planning Tools for Your Business [2024]

Epicflow

Scenario analysis This feature enables testing and analyzing different scenarios to see how changes in resource availability or project demands can impact overall capacity and project timelines. Scenario analysis Epicflow lets you perform what-if analysis to explore different scenarios and their impact on resource capacity.

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Top 15 Portfolio Management Tools for Your Business in 2025

Epicflow

By providing real-time insights and streamlining complex workflows, project portfolio management tools empower organizations to handle diverse initiatives with precision and agility. Scenario Planning and What-If Analysis Simulates different scenarios to evaluate potential outcomes.

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Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility

Johanna Rothman

One of my clients wants to use shared services “teams” as they start their agile transformation. Agile approaches break the idea of a “shared service” model of people. A team could move past analysis, into design, and even into coding without finishing the previous phase. In any culture or lifecycle.

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