Sorry if I sound gruff, but your section on resource planning offered nothing. First, you should have acknowledged that Smartsheet does not offer resource leveling. Then, you went on to say that you didn't know of any tool to address that issue. Was your conclusion that every few weeks an organization needs to redo their resource planning? I'm confused.
this is what PMO’s do. you asking is really revealing. I worked in a large PMO group and we had to check resources weekly if not DAILY. I can see why you would be confused.
We would love Smartsheet to have more resourcing capabilities like leveling and additional baseline functionality, but we have found work arounds and options that do not require full rewrites every few weeks :) At Echo we talk a lot about capacity planning and resource management organizational maturity For example : Crawl : Project Team Identified, Roles/ Responsibilities, High-level effort estimates by team / role Walk : Approval of ‘Named’ Resources, Forecasted Effort for Approved Projects, Actual Time Tracking Run : Individual Resources and Effort estimates assigned at task level, Forecasted effort for projects prior to approval, Governance / Prioritization methodology established Major issue for most PMOs and yes, lots of tools handle it in different ways (or don't handle it), but solutions for resource management and capacity planning require a combination of people/judgement, process/methodology and technologies.
A few of the slides are copyrighted (like our PMO overview slide) but we always encourage sharing! We prefer that teams use it and credit us, but we would rather you use it vs not - does that make sense?
Sorry if I sound gruff, but your section on resource planning offered nothing. First, you should have acknowledged that Smartsheet does not offer resource leveling. Then, you went on to say that you didn't know of any tool to address that issue. Was your conclusion that every few weeks an organization needs to redo their resource planning? I'm confused.
this is what PMO’s do. you asking is really revealing. I worked in a large PMO group and we had to check resources weekly if not DAILY. I can see why you would be confused.
We would love Smartsheet to have more resourcing capabilities like leveling and additional baseline functionality, but we have found work arounds and options that do not require full rewrites every few weeks :)
At Echo we talk a lot about capacity planning and resource management organizational maturity
For example :
Crawl : Project Team Identified, Roles/ Responsibilities, High-level effort estimates by team / role
Walk : Approval of ‘Named’ Resources, Forecasted Effort for Approved Projects, Actual Time Tracking
Run : Individual Resources and Effort estimates assigned at task level, Forecasted effort for projects prior to approval, Governance / Prioritization methodology established
Major issue for most PMOs and yes, lots of tools handle it in different ways (or don't handle it), but solutions for resource management and capacity planning require a combination of people/judgement, process/methodology and technologies.
Very good. Are these copyrighted or we can simply use them?
A few of the slides are copyrighted (like our PMO overview slide) but we always encourage sharing! We prefer that teams use it and credit us, but we would rather you use it vs not - does that make sense?
Thank you this is very helpful.
So glad! - We are just releasing a new blog series on PMO Best Practices you may enjoy : www.echoprojectmanagement.com/post/pmo-best-practices-1
Thank you for the information. I think this is quite helpful.
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