3 Keys to Resource Management

Tushar is an experienced product management and marketing professional and the VP of Marketing for Innotas.

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Successful resource management starts with instilling processes that balance workloads and match skillsets. It also requires the ability to adapt to shifting demands and priorities. And it’s all tied together by communication of real-time data. How well is your organization implementing these principles?

Resource management should start with resource planning. Prioritizing and scheduling people to ensure they are working on the right projects at the right time is critical because it does not matter if you are executing well, unless you are executing on the right things well. With that foundation, you can shift your focus from portfolio-level resource prioritization to project-centric resource execution.

One of the advantages of prioritizing resources and having organizational agreement is that you can now redirect your focus to getting things done. On the surface, talking about execution may not sound interesting because as project management practitioners, we all believe execution is one of our strong points. To test this theory, ask yourself the following questions:

• Are your resources setup to execute on-time and on-budget?
• Can you confidently say your project resources are not over-booked or stretched too thin?
• Can you easily request and justify resource requests if something changes with your project?
• Is there an agreed upon resource assignment …

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