I have been asked by a client to help come up with a calculation for resource availability based on some given data. By resource, I mean a project manager. We need to determine an individual PM's availability based on the given data. I'm not a project management guy so I'm hoping someone here can steer me in the right direction.
The data we have is in the following form, with options in parenthesis:
PM Name, # Of Projects, Project Size (small, medium, large), Project Phase (submitted, proposal development, initiation, planning, executing, closout), Project Start Date, Project End Date, Project Work % Complete
Is there a way to quantify this data and come up with a calculation for Resource Availability? I told the client they need to assign some sort of numeric value to each of the relevant options in order to be able to calculate overall availability. But they want help with that too.
Are there any standard practices or examples for this sort of thing? Any help would be great. Thanks! Saving Changes...
Project size is a poor predictor of project manager involvement, sometimes the shorter the time the more a PM needs to be available to get the project across the line. As a rule of thumb a PM will spend more time in the pre-execution phases of the project, but again this is not always so.
I notice that you are not trying to predict future PM availability but current based on what they are working on, why don't you ask the project managers? At least the answers will be more accurate than some arbitrary algorithm.
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