A few years back I got caught on an extremely complex project with a resource shortage. It didn’t look like I had a resource shortage…I had an army of people, all working like fiends. I had all the technical and business expertise I could possibly need. Everyone had a strong plan, and estimates [...]
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Okay, let’s say you have a bunch of projects on the go, your portfolio management system is too clunky (or you don’t have one), and you need to do some “what-if” analysis.
You have one pool of Business Analysts, Developers and Testers and up to five projects. How do they all [...]
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If you find yourself with staff who perform high volumes of routine tasks, you may find this worksheet useful. The top portion of the worksheet lets you figure out your actual total capacity for the department you’re looking at.
Below, that capacity is broken into three “buckets”. The first, “support capacity” [...]
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I'm Geoff Crane. After 22 years in the trenches of a lot of tough projects, I decided to change direction a little bit and focus on sparking ideas in the vibrant field of project management.
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