Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
Resource Sale
Resource management is a curious topic. Many people like the idea as a means to manage large projects, yet team managers push back at the administrative overhead that is needed to keep a resource management plan up to date to run their business.
On larger complex projects, it is not uncommon to have a resource management plan in place before the project starts. This type of plan on key projects gives insight into the ebbs and flows of work. It helps to illuminate when to move resources if needed in order to maximize resource utilization while maintaining the project scope and timeline.
Maintaining a resource management plan outside of a larger project--especially to manage the workload within a business team--is a less common occurrence. You are more likely to hear the argument about it being administratively burdensome compared to the return on time investment a team manager has to make. This argument is made from a business group at the same time the teams are requesting a way to manage new incoming work requests, balance those with existing work and make the appropriate trade-offs to avoid churn and resource burnout.
The paper will outline three easy steps to sell the concept of resource management so it can be easily and proactively adopted within a business team and ultimately maintained long term.
Sell the concept within the project team
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