Resource Management Challenges

Wayne leads product marketing for Oracle | Primavera and previously served as VP of Marketing for cloud PPM leader Instantis before it was acquired by Oracle.

  Governance   Stakeholder Management   Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)   ProjectsAtWork  

Preliminary results from an ongoing Resource Management Maturity survey show that many organizations are struggling to advance their processes beyond the work visibility level. The ability to incorporate resource availability and project priority information remains a challenge.

The Resource Management Maturity survey, which was launched in late May, is now in full swing and we are already approaching 300 completed surveys. This gives us enough statistical critical mass to confidently start drawing some high-level conclusions. The first thing we wanted to understand was the distribution of industry participants across the five levels of resource management maturity defined in the Resource Management Maturity Model (RMMM). Here are the preliminary results.

What is clear is that a large percentage (38%) of organizations in general struggle to mature their resource and capacity management process beyond the basic Level 1: Work Visibility Level. For a plurality of organizations, the ability to incorporate resource availability information (Level 2: Controlled Assignment) and project priority information (Level 3: Governed Capacity) is still a work-in-progress.

Another, obvious conclusion is that there is a major drop-off in the number of organization at Level 4 and Level 5. This was predicted by the RMMM which characterized the transition from Level 3 to Level 4 as…

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