Allocating and managing resources efficiently to support project execution.
Resource management is vital for optimizing the use of people, tools, and materials to achieve project goals. This concept focuses on the allocation, scheduling, and efficient utilization of resources across project tasks. Mastering resource management ensures that your projects are adequately supported with the necessary resources, reducing bottlenecks and delays.
This cluster is particularly valuable for project managers, operations managers, and team leads responsible for resource planning and management. You’ll learn to forecast resource needs, allocate resources effectively, and monitor usage to maintain project momentum.
Explore tools and techniques such as resource leveling, resource allocation matrices, and project management software to enhance your resource management capabilities.
Managers ask it. Developers hate it. Know why that is and what you should be asking instead.
How should you handle employees working on complex projects in an organization as a manager? Perhaps you intend to know "'when the project will be done" but it's a bit unpredictable for the employees to define when they will be done. Blake Norrish in this text explains how to approach such scenarios to estimate the deadline of unpredictable projects like Software projects. He notes that instead of asking when the job will be done, rather ask "WHAT IS LEFT TO DO?"
Exploring the relationship between the need for "idle time" and increasing productive capacity in Kanban.
The word Slack is often poised with a negative connotation that it creates more idle time for employees while they could be utilizing the spare time for productive tasks in the company. This article subverts that claim suggesting that its crucial for exercutives to do away with that negative mindset against Slack. It explains that rather than staying idle, employees have more time to reflect on innovations and improvements keeping the company's products and services stable and innovative. Learn more in the article about Slack and how to leverage its spare time for more valuable things in the company.
Making waste visible in the development process with a visual representation to engage your team into making clear improvements.
How do you make waste visible in a system? Value-Stream-Mapping, a lean technique as well-described in this piece, is key to identifying waste in a system. The technique maps the development cycle of your system in a visual presentation making it easier to detect both value and non-value-adding tasks that should be defined and tracked from customer requirement to delivery. As a result, the people working on the system unify their ideas to channel out the waste and work on the value-adding parts of the system. Therefore, reducing individual blames and optimizing the entire system.
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