Higher project margins with Agile resource planning
In today’s rapidly changing business environment, flexibility is essential for success. This is especially true for managing resources within projects. Traditional methods of resource planning
In today’s rapidly changing business environment, flexibility is essential for success. This is especially true for managing resources within projects. Traditional methods of resource planning
Do you work for an international company with multiple locations in Europe? If so, it’s common for employees to be loaned out between different entities
Just about every organization has to deal with it, huge peaks in workload and periods when it is really the dead season – when there
Conveniently planning your resources saves a lot of time. Not only for you as a planner, but for the entire organization you free up time
Deploying your people effectively on your projects is like a jigsaw puzzle. After all, you have to match the employees with the right skills with
We all want to do more work without extra costs. But how do you do that? What if you could do this with the exact same people you work with now? That may sound utopian.
Project planning and resource planning are closely related. It is therefore not surprising that they are often confused. However, there are important differences and you use different tools for both.
A team full of hard workers is of course the dream of every company. But are your hard workers also productive? And what about the external people you hire?
If the demand and/or turnover drops, structurally, we speak of shrinkage. In a shrinking organization you need to get a grip on the biggest expenditure, namely the employment of employees.
Many project-based companies must be available to their clients 24 hours a day. For this, they have to set up a breakdown service and plan employees accordingly.