Questions tagged [resource-planning]
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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Three-Point estimating software (PERT?)
I'm looking for project management/planning software which makes it easy to work with the uncertainty in estimating effort for tasks. E.g., every task might have an optimistic, pessimistic, and ...
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How to achieve substitutability if the team is not cross-functional (operation team)?
How to achieve substitutability if the team is not cross-functional (operation team)?
Currently in my Operation team, there are 3 sub-teams, each consisting of 2-3 people, which are handling different ...
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Microsoft Project Does Not Sum The Work Total Of Resources Other Than The First Resource In The List
On the Default Resource Usage view, totals are displayed only for the first resource. Others are not added and displayed.
The zero total is also present in other reports. How can this be fixed?
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Replacement for Project 2010 that lets multiple users edit at once?
We've been using Project 2010 and have a file saved to our network which we all enter data into and modify to track our projects. With licenses for Project 2010 no longer available, we were looking to ...
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How we can calculate the free warranty time for a software application [closed]
I am a freelancer, and I am going to build a software application developed using SharePoint Online as the DataSource, Power Apps and Power Automate. The Project mainly includes automating 14 business ...
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Is it possible to start with the amount of hours each person needs for each task and their availability, then drive the project schedule from that?
Following this question, I have a hierarchical list of tasks. I have asked my team members to tell me how much time they need for each task. I also know the interdependency between those tasks. take ...
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Under what circumstances does resource levelling become necessary?
Sorry for the preamble here - but I think the context is important.
I'm responsible for tracking progress on a project which runs on a NEC3-ECC contract which requires that programmes (implemented in ...
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MS Project: How to plan tasks that have no particular order?
I am involved in software development and I have a total of 35 features that need to be implemented in our software. Each feature has been estimated for the time it will take, and there are 5 ...
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How can a generic resource be overallocated?
MS Project.
My understanding is that a generic resource is specifically of infinite availability. That's why it's generic.
So in the very early stages of our journey to implementing resource ...
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Is it possible to have personal backlogs and planning according to the prioritization of the tasks?
Microsoft Project is ok for setting up for Gannt Chart and baseline but it is not possible to see individual plans and schedules. Is it possible to integrate all?
is it possible to have personal ...
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Project Plans - MS Project Vs Atlassian BigPicture
I'm an engineering project manager, responsible for the delivery of development projects. We're currently using MS project for project for task and resource management and have been recently ...
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How does the use of CI/CD make it easier to handle the loss or absence of key staff?
I'm working on a project that has no CI/CD. We have only one person who builds the code and deploys it to staging and production. In the past there have been discussions on implementing CI/CD, but to ...
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How does project management manage people with differing abilities?
I once worked on an application programming project with three main tasks:
Build a system for analyzing a user situation
Integration with another piece of software
Organize the main architecture of ...
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How to calculate a flexible team capacity and have the sprint capacity adapt to it?
I am planning a Program Increment of 3 Months and I have a team of people with a variety of skills.
Basically, we have 3 categories in which each developer is differently skilled: UI, Backend & ...
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What's the role of a Resource Manager in Agile?
The following exchange took place in the comments to an answer to another question How do I manage development with testing and get proper reporting in JIRA?, which seem to highlight a different ...
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Estimate date based on number of resources allocated to project
Is there any way to determine an estimated project date by number of resources allocated? I have set up all my tasks to automatic and effort driven and identified critical tasks and dependencies, but ...
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MS Project chart for multiple projects
I am a project manager and I use MS Project to manage multiple projects. I use a shared resource pool. I have been playing with the charts feature, in the resource file to try to get a chart showing a ...
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How to compete for resources with other project leaders
I handed over one of my projects to another project lead. Before that, I shared my resources more freely between my four projects, to ensure stress was bearable for all and milestones were met.
I ...
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How to manage time and resources efficiently? [closed]
I am new to resource management and I wanted to improve the time management of my team in handling tasks/projects. Do you have best practice to follow on giving out tasks or on planning the resources ...
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Project Management for Website Agency - Change of Industries [closed]
I have a couple of years experience of project management in a particular industry. Covid-19 restrictions have hit it hard and I have been out of a job for the last 6 months. There is not going to be ...
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Project managment case on interview: Contingency resolution
I am getting ready for an interview for the role of project manager and came across an interesting case. How would you approach this case in an interview?
Your team supports Google's internal service ...
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MS-Projects -- Assigning a Resource group as resource
I am using MS Projects (desktop) and am wondering if it is possible to assign resources by the group they are designated under in the resource list. Essentially I would like to assign a team to a ...
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Auto allocate resources
Is there any way to make MS project choose the resources for tasks between candidates that I've given to it? I mean there are several people who can do a task but how many of them and which ones are ...
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Gantt chart with resource de-confliction
I like to use Gantt charts to model the time tasks will take and the dependencies of those tasks. For reference, I use GanttProject but I am not tied to it.
One issue I've had, however, is handling ...
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Microsoft Project - Tasks do not split if a higher priority task "Leveling Can Split" is set to "No"
I have an issue where using "Priority, Standard" levelling that "Leveling Can Split" appears to stop lower priority tasks from splitting. I am trying to ensure that highest ...
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Effect of front-loading tasks on project schedule
Customer wanted to re-prioritize activities and move them up the schedule. This will result in some tasks being carried out in parallel. To avoid over-allocating my resources, we have recommended to ...
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How to resolve the resource overallocation when the resource is allocated with 200%
I have a project with 650 days of effort with 2 resources to work with. For both resource it is 8 hours per day. When I assign resource with 200% of allocation for all the task the resource is ...
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What is the standard approach to planning work that might or might not be needed based on certain circumstances?
I am wondering what the typical approach would be here:
In a project, we are renewing old machines and therefore the new ones will need to be integrated into an older system. That might or might not ...
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How do you maintain proper resource leveling in MS Project after baseline since resource leveling shifts to maintain slack+leveling days?
Once you have created your schedule with all the known dependencies, leveled resource assignments, and proper baseline, how do you go about maintaining the leveling?
Task A is a driver to task B. Task ...
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How to accurately communicate task priorities?
In my company, I am constantly struggling with how to accurately communicate the priorities of tasks. Some of the aspects of this are:
Some tasks need to be done before a deadline, however, sometimes ...
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How to create a resource usage calendar across multiple Project Online projects
The division I work in has 3 PMs that share resources. We have a three fold need we're trying to engineer a solution for within the Microsoft Office ecosystem.
We need to create a resource allocation ...
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How to cross project plan for enterprise resources, with leveling support in Microsoft Project Server
I'm using Microsoft Project Server on Sharepoint to manage project throughout the organization.
I have some enterprise (work) resources, that are simultaneously active on multiple projects.
The ...
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Decision making between alternatives: methods and tools?
My company is in this situation:
low budget
few time
a lot of idea for new feature
So, we need to prioritize feature implementation, only some will be implemented now, some other will be next year, ...
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MS Project, Resource Availability, Task Usage work hours
I've been using other tools for awhile and have to jump back into MS Project.
I started a high level plan with tasks and resources, however, I'm having trouble remembering the specifics around Task ...
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How to assign 1 resource to a fixed work task where the resource has 50% availability for the first 2 days and then 100% availability after that?
I have a project that I am trying to schedule and am having a little difficulty. I am a MS project novice and will try to explain the problem in a simple example.
I have 1 task which is fixed work. ...
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How can I calculate duration and price for the development of SW product?
How can I calculate the duration and price for the development of the C# software? Does exist any pattern or tools for that? I think the duration of the project can be about the 6 months, for one ...
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What is the report called that tells you whether a business venture is worth pursuing?
This report would be distinct from a market research report which helps a business understand something central or auxiliary component of their existing business. I'm referring to a report that helps ...
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How to allocate a manager to many tasks that overlap
I have a project with a lot of work going on in different domains. Say one domain is Business Process. Each domain has a single manager, for example the Business Process manager. There are lots of ...
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Auto Scheduling in Microsoft Project Planning 2016 is not working as expected
I scheduled many tasks in the AUTO schedule, However, it is not taking/changing the dates once I link all the tasks. Due to that, I selected the start date manually which is resulting in a different ...
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How to execute a project with two resources where you need three resources?
Recently, I participated in a Project Manager interview and the following question were raised. What would be the correct answer for that?
A software development project is needed three resources to ...
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How can I plan resources for maintenance after project?
My managers are asking, before green-lighting a new project, how much people (resources) will it take after the project is done, to maintain it. Ie: fix bugs, deploy new features on demand, adapt to ...
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MS Project Configuration - 80% allocation to project, max of 50% per task per day
I'm a newbie to MS Project here, so I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction, or tell me if I'm barking up the wrong tree.
Is there a way to constrain a resource in MS Project ...
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MS Project resource graph across multiple projects
I am using MS Project to create Gantt charts for multiple projects. Each project consists of different resources but these resources are shared across all of these projects.
Currently these resources ...
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How to divide a generic resource?
I am still new at using ms project Professional. My project has already assigned resources.
For instance, let's take developers who together have a maximum effort of 200%, which means I have 2 ...
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ms project - delay a task due to unaviability of 1 resource
I want to schedule tasks using multiple resources. The work task is fixed and multiple resources are allocated to the tasks.
I want to auto-schedule the tasks, however, when 1 resource is ...
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Is focusing on one project beneficial even when project priorities can't be quantified?
Small internal IT department that assists all of a company's departments.
Each department has projects that each are 'priority 1' - the departments and executive team are unwilling to strictly ...
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Duration vs Work...Resource Overallocation Errors
I am fairly new to project so apologies up front...I have several tasks in my project plan which have a set duration; i.e. start and end dates/due dates, but the actual amount of time required for ...
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Determine to which task a resource is allocated on a particular day
Using a shared resource pool for several project plans (each plan is contained in a separate file), what is the simplest way of working out to which task a given resource is allocated on a particular ...
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About the claim that adding more developers to a team does not make delivery faster
Over the years, I have heard many times that adding more developers to a team does not make things faster. My opinion is that it's a question of management. If you can allocate one complex screen of a ...
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MS Project - Multi-year Inflation
I am managing a 3 year project in a country where the average annual inflation rate is 12%. Instead of going through every item and entering "+12%" into the cost rate table for each item, is there a ...
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