Epicflow Pros and Cons

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you don’t have accurate and correct data or don’t input necessary data on time, you don’t get accurate results and prompts. But this is not the disadvantage of Epicflow, this is the peculiarity of any data-driven software, especially with AI functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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I think the only disadvantage is the complexity of the system itself. But as soon as you understand the framework, everything becomes clear. They provide training, workshops, and technical support that help everyone in the team understand the solution, become confident users, and resolve issues if any arise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's unclear what some of the graphs show exactly, like bubble chart, I think it's supposed to be an alternative to fever chart but the way projects behave there raises some questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being able to see how managing resources between projects will affect them in the future.

Integrations with MS Project is a big plus.

Modern, simple and intuitive interface.

Mobile app was a nice addition.

Fast setup, we were ready to go in a week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Same downsides as any other PM tool. Takes time to adjust, features require some introdution and etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Truly unifies the efforts of our sales and implementation teams to ensure our prospects' solution evaluations are executed in the least amount of time, decisions are fully informed, and the implementation phase is expeditiously started and successfully concluded... on time and under budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have no issues with the way Epicflow addresses our project dynamics. In fact, Epicflow; software AND support, has been exemplary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I worked as a Project Manager at a software development outsourcing company and we used Epicflow as an add-on to Jira. It’s a good add value tool to use when you have several projects with task dependencies in parallel. It simplifies work routine a lot. I can track my team’s progress and spot resource constraints to avoid possible project delays. The tool automatically defines optimal priorities and my employees understand what task to do next.

The next thing I like, is improved visibility I get with Epicflow. I can see the progress of my multiple projects in the pipeline. If I have a client who has an additional Jira instance, I can easily connect it to the existing Epicflow environment

If a new project comes in, the future load graph lets me predict whether I can optimize developers to start working on one more project.

No need to refill and organize data from scratch. The software has flexible mapping of the fields in Jira in the fields of Epicflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To get the real value, Epicflow requires my project information to start working, like tasks and their dependency network, a rough estimate of each task, a resource group assigned to complete the milestone, and project and milestone deadlines. The input data must be compatible with the Epicflow system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a project manager in a software outsourcing company I’m responsible for resource scheduling in several ongoing projects. I have a shared pool of software developers and Epicflow helps me to see which projects are assigned to which team members and which team members still have time to help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s a kind of new project planning mindset, but it’s worth the investment of our efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

People have been looking for so long to get a consolidated overview of their projects in Jira.

Thanks to Epicflow you can see who’s doing what and check where they stand in comparison to where they should be. Epicflow retrieves data from Jira to show all tasks under one roof and better handle them

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It takes a few days to organize the Jira environment to proceed with Epicflow. Epicflow resources can help to understand how it should be organized in a correct way to get the value and minimize risks.

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I’m a project manager at a company that specializes in the electrical installation in the super yacht building. My projects are complex in a sense that we have a lot of repetitive actions on different systems with small adjustments, each estimated in 100,000 hours. It’s very important to get early warnings to increase capacity and to set the right priorities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The total overview in such a complex environment like mine is still not good enough. I forwarded my feedback to the Epicflow development team, so they can plan to deliver better multi-project overview. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Epicflow gives me a good overview of my teams’ progress. It’s much easier to connect cross-functional teams and stay aligned. I’m in control now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You need to estimate every task and put dependencies.

Everybody must change statuses immediately to keep it updated.

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