TenForce – Pragmatic Project Management

Resource Management

Challenges

Resource management challenges

When there is a resource management process, its information is distributed in spreadsheets, MS Project files, financial or accounting systems. Each manager may have his/her own resource management rules. It is difficult for an organization to identify precisely the number of resources, skills and their availability and overall planning.

The process itself is not always clear and has limited visibility outside the team. Because it is quite labor intensive, it is only kept up to date once a year. The negotiation process become turf wars and suffer from a lack of standardization, visibility of priority and status.

The budget algorithm itself is not very sophisticated. It often relies only on “what did we do last year?”. The outcome of the resource management process typically fails to deliver value because the resource budget and actual consumption during the year or during the project is not consolidated. Therefore, it offers little support for adequate management decisions, and ‘What if’ scenarios are difficult.

Features

• Continuous visibility on resource capacity & high level plans.
  • Supports negotiation cycle.
  • Continuous resource capacity evaluation.
• Based on people and/or skills.
  • Integrates with MSP Resource files.
• What If analysis gives an answer to multiple questions:
  • Project delayed by 6 months?
  • Adding x resources?

The outcome of the resource management process typically fails to deliver value:

• Resource budget and actuals not consolidated
• Little support for adequate management decisions
• Difficult ‘What If’ scenario’s