Want to drive more revenue? Well, then there’s one metric you want to keep a close eye on: billable utilization. Understanding how your team spends their time is crucial for any business that’s aiming to boost…
Written by Team Guru
Time tracking in resource management is key to understanding where your resource planning was effective, and where it fell short. People track time for a variety of reasons, but using it to improve the effectiveness of…
Written by Eleanor Hope Jones
Agency resource planning and management processes help you align the right people with available project work. Doing it well leads to happy, productive agency teams committed to delivering high-quality client outcomes. Project success and satisfied clients…
Written by Rachael Nicholson
Resource capacity planning templates can make life as a resource or project manager so much easier. A nifty template will sharpen your resource planning process—saving you time and stress. Plus, it’ll help you identify overallocated resources…
Written by Rachael Nicholson
If you’ve ever built a large LEGO set, you know that you need to have the right number and types of pieces available in the correct order to successfully create your masterpiece. If you don’t, you’ll…
Written by Stuart McLachlan
Many people talk about project management and resource management software interchangeably. But while there are crossovers in functionality, resource management tools focus on allocating the human resources required for project success, as opposed to purely handling…
Written by Stuart McLachlan
The FTE vs. headcount dilemma can get people scratching, well, their heads. But in project management planning, people are your most valuable resource and you should treat them as such. Sure, you need enough workers to…
Written by Jo Johansson
From the Great Resignation and the increase in remote work to changing project management practices, large-scale obstacles are trickling down to project managers’ resource capacity planning. It’s undoubtedly frustrating when factors you have no control over…
Written by Jo Johansson
Resources are ever-changing—a constant ebb and flow of people, materials, time, and money—so it may seem obvious that resource allocation should always be front of mind for your project team. But are you implementing it effectively?…
Written by Jo Johansson
You’ve probably heard plenty of ‘best practice’ advice on the steps involved in creating a resource management plan. But when it comes down to doing it yourself, how often is resource smoothing part of the process?…
Written by Stuart McLachlan
As a project manager, you ensure that your team has the resources they need to get the job done. But what happens if you have competing priorities – deadline vs available resources? You may choose to…
Written by Stuart McLachlan
Most people think the Great Resignation—employees quitting their jobs in droves—is a fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s true that the pandemic opened our eyes to the possibilities of remote work and better work-life balance, but…
Written by Stuart McLachlan
Your employees are at the epicenter of your business operations. And just like the far-reaching impact of an earthquake, the shockwaves that result from poor human resource planning are felt throughout the organization—in the form of…
Written by Stuart McLachlan
The Avengers. AFC Richmond. Pawnee’s Parks and Recreation Department. Besides the fact that we’d love to join each one of these fictional groups, what else do these legendary teams have in common? Legendary leaders. Nick Fury…
Written by Stuart McLachlan
Oyster mushrooms start to grow when you shock them by moving them from a dark and dry room to a bright and humid one. Unexpectedness is part of the plan. Your projects and employees need a…
Written by Stuart McLachlan