Category: Capacity Planning

Given how important capacity planning for engineering projects is, here’s presenting an article with metrics that will streamline your process, as a step ahead from this article on tips to perfecting it. As teams diversify and projects expectations snowball, the lack of adequate resource capacity planning can easily show up as symptoms that border project…

Considering how finding the right people to do the task at hand is the crux of successful resource management, effective resource allocation is of paramount importance. Resource allocation is the diligent deployment of resources on to tasks based on their skill set and timelines. However, managers are often forced to allocate resources by virtue of…

From having started out with time intensive approaches, Engineering project portfolio management quickly evolved into being both nuanced and agile. To match its velocity and level of innovation, the resource management practices adopted  for such projects have also scaled up. Resource planning for engineering has different milestones that determine its success. In this regard, the…

Smart utilization of project resources is a deciding factor to your success, given the substantial resource costs involved. So making sure that your utilization levels are optimal is an integral part of Resource Management. It is essential that resource and project managers dedicate their best efforts in making sure that their resources are not under…

Planning your workforce is critical to extract optimal output. However, seamless planning is marred by the less than ideal situations that larger teams often land themselves in. Having studied those patterns for years, the founding fathers of Resource Management have prescribed the following four as the pillars of successful Resource Management: Absolute visibility of all…

You have enough projects and people. Yet when you are matching them, the puzzle does not fit together. Worse still, you are paying people for work they are not skilled enough to do and are converting projects that you know you’ll have to hire specially for. In short you have landed in a skill gap…

Overwork has been mistaken as a means or measure of productivity despite its converse effect on real productivity. And, in the context of the Consulting and Auditing industry, it has intertwined with work culture so much so that it has long been accepted as the industry norm.  Naturally, when the industry seeks to reform its…