I’m a project manager at an outsourcing company, and I’ve been a confident Epicflow user for more than five years. The tool helps me easily resolve most project management challenges and simplifies my daily routine. Though I apply every feature from time to time, I’d like to share the most frequently used ones: The competence management feature helps me add and manage competencies and skills and improves (and significantly simplifies!) resource allocation. Timesheet and task list let me access the current workload of resources and be aware of what the teams are busy with. Dashboard gives an insight into the state of my projects so I always know about the lack of time or resources and can improve this timely, moreover, the Future load graph can predict these problems and I can avoid them by changing the strategy. Pipeline and task list are our everyday instruments for fast project and task checking. If I see any issues, I dive into project details with the help of other features like Historical load graph, Dashboard, and What-if analysis to resolve them. And I can’t help but mention automatic report generation, which saves so much time for me.

The most valuable functionality for us: Task list with automatically prioritised tasks and the ability to allocate resources based on the chosen characteristics Ability to plan the workload up to any chosen date and foresee overload What-if functionality to understand the potential results of your actions on your project flow Automatic report generation

I love that Epiclfow calculates future load and shows the possible resource constraint before it becomes a problem. Capacity/load.output charts are also great for tracking the team efficiency on a daily basis. Simulation mode is an interesting solution too, it lets you make any changes to your projects to see the results without disturbing your environment,