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Over the past few years I have certainly done my share of pontificating on how to balance staff resources against what seems like unlimited demand from projects (and other quarters). But when the rubber meets the road, we all have to find a way to make it work. All that pontificating and consulting has lead to [...] . . .assigning people to projects. I’ll admit, the traditional view of resource management is finding the right resources for your project. But how often does that turn into a fight for scarce resources? How often are projects approved and activated, but as the PM looks for people they aren’t available? So, that would lead us to actually doing some resource planning! Many organizations will start charting out their resource needs by role during the initiation phase, giving them a head start on finding available resources. Let’s see, I need a PM full-time, 20 hours a week of a DBA, another 20 of a programmer, and so on. Of course, I’m already knee-deep into serious analysis work on the project, and may have already tapped out all the business analysts with all this initiation work going on. So, role planning is not the most important element of resource management. |
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