Category: Capacity Planning

Here’s an exclusive excerpt from the newly released eBook by Saviom – ‘The Holy Grail of Resource Management: Demand Forecasting and Capacity Planning’. You can download it here for free. Research sponsored by the Project Management Institute (PMI) shows that talent deficiencies significantly hamper 40% of strategy implementation efforts. So, hiring, developing, and retaining the…

The PMO and its methodologies have evolved to encompass a large scheme of processes. Yet, resource requesting process largely remains unstructured. We are all familiar with the endless loop that the staff request process creates. When a requirement arises, the manager in charge gets in touch with the resource manager. The resource manager in turn…

Resource capacity planning is the art of successfully juggling with resource demand and capacity planning. Much to the peril of most managers, it is easier said than done, given the fact that demand shifts are dynamic and data on supply can hardly catch up even when demand positions are quite clear. Within the engineering space,…

Thanks to the far reach of globalization and virtualization, nearly all modern businesses are linked directly or indirectly with global market dynamics. This is true not only for global firms but also for locally-run companies. And never has this been clearer than with the current ripple effects of the recent slowdown in China, a country…

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In the current volatile economic environment, businesses are operating under increasingly rapidly-changing dynamics with priorities for projects shifting on a whim. Such scenarios force management to juggle already-overloaded employees on a weekly or sometimes daily basis. To complicate matters even further, management also needs to additionally consider its resourcing for upcoming, unconfirmed projects within the…

Running a company comes down to managing people properly more than anything else. So why do so many firms rely on primitive Excel spreadsheet software to manage highly-important and repetitive resource scheduling? Sure, it seems like an easy way to get up and running but the cumbersome nature of spreadsheet software combined with a lack…