Topic Teasers Vol. 50: Resource Management Capacity

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We’ve just been purchased and the new CEO wants me to set up a better way to manage our project managers working on projects. We seem to be either overworked or sitting around idle. Since we are a big organization, most of the “one team” solutions don’t fit--we’re also a hybrid of traditional methods plus an agile sensibility where it can be worked in. Ideas?

A. Set all of your teams up to be Scrum teams and hire a ScrumMaster to oversee everything. Traditional methods no longer work in today’s business environment.

B. Hire a Business Analyst for each team and have this person supervise the project manager to make sure the mix of work to relaxation during the day is more equal than in the past.

C. Plan that this transition may take several years, then start with a Resource Manager position and look to tighten up the activities done by project managers so that they work at their maximum efficiency. Base your actions on providing capacity information to the portfolio team you create or repurpose for this larger corporate project.

D. Suggest that all personnel be hired from an outside sourcing agency, so that the numbers of people working on your projects can vary from week to week. This is called Resource Leveling, and will save the organization a sizable amount of money.

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