Resource Planning is a method for the effective planning of all variety of company's resources. Such resources may be people, funds, equipment, etc. On this site, Resource Planning usually means workforce of the people assigned to a certain project.
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Calculate start and finish dates based on remaining work in Project
I have a project plan for a project that we already started and I want the plan to reflect the schedule moving forward, say as of tomorrow. I have a handful of dependencies and resources assigned.
I ...
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Indicate max hours per day per resource in MS Project Plan
I have a project that has 4 team members in the plan:
2 developers @ 8 hours per day
2 developers @ 4 hours per day
How can I configure that two of those dev can only work 4 hours per day but the ...
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Catch-Up Scheduling
Say I have a project X that is due to be complete by Date Y
Right now we are 10% behind schedule (Should be say 50% and right now 40%), How can I estimate what level of "effort" is required to catch ...
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Is there are a resource handler or gantt chart creator tool for JIRA?
I'm hoping someone has some experience on tools and/or better keywords to describe this problem:
I have JIRA system for developers where they provide estimates and track time completed. The estimate ...
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How can I schedule resources across multiple projects?
Drawing from the body and comments of a previous question, what is the best way to schedule simultaneous projects and resources to those projects?
For example, in a group of 16 staff, each working on ...
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What tools and techniques can be used to track resource allocation across several projects? [closed]
What tools and techniques can be used to track resource allocation across several projects? I have engineers shared across several concurrent projects. I need to see resource under/over allocation ...
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Conflicting career options for a young professional [closed]
I'm new here, so here we go..
I previously was a young Telecommunication Engineer, but i mainly did IT solutions architect stuff in that area, since a year ago iv been doing a part-time MBA at a top ...
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What is the typical ratio of PM/EM hours to “work” hours in a project?
What is the rule-of-thumb ratio of Project Manager/Engagement Manager time to overall project time (e.g. man-hours for work products) in a project? I'm especially interested in an answer within the ...
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Managing a Product Owner in a not-yet-agile organization
When my company was acquired, my 20-person development team gained a Product Owner who is energetic, engaged, and extremely idealistic. While many of the programmers on our team are familiar with ...
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Gantter/ProjectLibre multiple resources to one task, start ASAP, divide work unequally
I am using Gantter and/or ProjectLibre (which are both almost identical to Microsoft Project in functionality). I think that if there is a solution to this in Microsoft Project, then it will work in ...
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What is a good “lightweight” approach for managing team resources and action items?
A team member who manages a small team has asked me for ideas to help her better manage what her team is doing. I'm trying to pull examples together that wouldn't require a lot of overhead but will be ...
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Is PM considered a billable resource?
In a software development firm that I work for, contracts are billed based on 3 items: Design, Development, and PM.
Example: A simple software project could take 200 hours and would be broken down ...
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Why does MS project multiply the duration of tasks?
I've created a recurring task in MS project and I'd like to assign resources (staff) to that resource but when I add the resource(s) to the task the Work hours multiply to extremes and I don't ...
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Allocation of resources during morning scrum?
I find that process to be a bit confusing, but from the time I've been here, I get the impression that resource allocation happens during the morning scrum meetings. So for example, if Dev A has 8 ...
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How can I track team member utilization across a range of projects?
I have a fixed-sized team (with fixed-hours) and products, more than the team can handle. At any given time, while my resources are working on one product, requests keep flowing in about work on other ...
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Resources used by multiple PMs
I am the Infrastructure PM on a large project, working as part of a team of PMs with different responsibilities. These include Development, Testing, Environment Support, and Implementation. My remit ...
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What is the procedure for adjusting the project schedule when a team member is replaced?
There is a project team with a project manager and 5 development resources working on a Web 2.0 web application. The current project the team is working on is for a long term client who commissioned a ...
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What are the benefits of using Gantt charts during the execution phase of a project?
After a decade of managing software projects, I've found Gantt charts to have very limited use after the Planning phase.
What are the perceived benefits of Gantt charts, especially during the ...
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Rational Team Concert for resource scheduling
We are evaluating RTC as a primary project management / development framework tool.
In particular we follow a high number of concurrent projects with mutable teams. Our main problem are that we ...
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What should be ideal ratio of developers and testers?
I am in the process of hiring resources for testing team. I have none currently.
What should be the number of testers if my developers are 10?
Is there any rule of thumb which specifies how many ...
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Is keeping two project plans ever appropriate?
I feel that if I publish a project plan that shows completion on date X, I can't very well push for completion at date (X - 3 weeks). But If I publish a plan that shows date (X-3 weeks), how can I ...
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Resource planning with uncertain dates and durations
I am an infrastructure PM, providing and managing technical environments for testing a large, complex new application which will then be put into production. I have to produce a plan for a project ...
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What are the main advantages and disadvantages you experience using a planning tool to respect your deadlines?
Are planning sofwares absolutaly necessary? Can you plan your project without one?
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How to handle 'ilities' (or non-functional requirements) for a project planning/prioritization/work-allocation?
It seems the world is doing a good job at managing functional requirements for a system - you can link them to benefits, prioritize them and manage their implementation schedule (let's assume an ideal ...
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What are effective strategies for dealing with project bottlenecks?
I work as a software developer at a small non-IT company. One of the challenges we face is receiving timely feedback to questions and the testing of the programming assignments we handle. The root ...
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What techniques are useful when factoring in the likelihood that one or more members of the team may take leave during a project?
What's the best way of planning for the possibility that a key member(s) of the team might want to take leave at some point during a project?
I understand one solution is to buffer the project ...
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How can I make company-wide scheduling and resource allocation decisions?
I've recently been taken on in a Programme Management role for a software company. There are several definitions of Programme / Program Manager out there - my role encompasses, amongst other things:
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Method of determining whether resourcing is sufficient?
Imagine that a project has failed due to processes not being followed, which in turn, was due to under-resourcing and a shortage of experienced personnel.
What are some examples of specific kinds of ...
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How to balance tasks in Project based on resources?
I have a situation where I can have multiple tasks run in parallel but I am short on resources. So let's say I have only two people who can do work on a project. How can I set tasks so dates do not ...
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Resource/project management software - with resource levelling [closed]
Can anyone recommend some project management software which has good resource management features e.g. resource allocation and levelling.
I'm really struggling to find to something that allows enough ...
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Software tool for resource pipeline planning for multiple projects
My company has about 20 - 30 open projects at any given time, as well as 5 - 10 that have been approved and will start within the next few weeks.
We currently use Basecamp to manage the projects and ...
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What Are The Steps I Need To Take When Putting a Project On Hold?
There is a project (Project A) which is possibly being put on hold because resources are being diverted to another project that has potential for impressive revenue gains. The project sponsors, as ...
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Making a budget and time plan for a software project
Let's assume that we are starting a project, but have no previous experience of budgeting a software project.
What should the guys who will work on that project do to make a decent budget planing?
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Should a PM also be a resource on the project? Why?
we have a small team of highly technical people and one of them is the project manager for the project. The person who is in PM role for this project is experienced and has previous project management ...
