Category: Engineering and Construction

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…

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…

A construction project without an efficient manager is an anchorless ship. Besides process driven hiccups, construction projects also need to be prepared for external factors like weather constraints, price volatility, temporary contractors, variations in safety compliance – all of which play spoilsport on different levels. Despite such limitations, the onus is on the project manager…

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…

When Tony Loveday, Principal Engineer at RMA Engineering walks in on a Monday morning he is delighted to see his teams efficiently collaborate on various tasks. Today, Tony and the RMA teams have worked their way into a workflow management structure that greatly simplifies resource balancing and improves productivity levels. Considering RMA, a multi-disciplinary engineering…

In the first part of this series, we dealt with the critical areas of strategy building and implementation that managers easily compromise on, and traced examples of failure that were caused due to them. In the conclusion edition, we focus on making implementation plans stronger by highlighting areas that require better attention. Successful implementation of…

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,…