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Edilson Pernumiam de Oliveira Functional Manager| M Dias Branco S/A Jaboatão Dos Guararapes, Pernambuco, Brazil
When managing a project, portfolio or program we have to size the project team. According to your experience, concerning engineering projects, what is the capacity of investment of each team member - eg. US$ millions of investment per team member per year.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
It is very difficult to give a specific figure as it differs from one project to another and from one post to another.
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
Perhaps I did not understand your question. The way to create the team and decide of the number of team members is to assign human resources to activities. That´s all.
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Anupam India
Each resource is billed based on experience, skill and nature of role. These figure change as per project, process and organization.
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Edilson Pernumiam de Oliveira Functional Manager| M Dias Branco S/A Jaboatão Dos Guararapes, Pernambuco, Brazil
Thank you Rami, Sergio, Anupam. Some companies have average figures for that. With this information, for example, they might know that for an annual capital investment budget of US$ 60 million, they expect to need a team of 20 people (US$ 3 million per person). That figure is based on historical experience. This kind of information that I am looking for!
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Miguel Quiquinta Program Manager| IBM Canada Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Question of chicken and egg: What comes first, sizing or prioritization? what are pros and cons of either one vs the other?
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1 reply by phan mem nha hang cafe
Apr 02, 2017 1:10 PM
phan mem nha hang cafe
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You're funny!
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S Rajasekar Senior Project Manager| Allscripts Bangalore, Karnataka, India
It depends on company/Org (competition and reputation) , For example: An Engineer with same skill set will be paid/charged differently in different companies
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
I first believe the industry will make a huge difference.
How many people for a 40M$ construction project? and for a software project?

For each industry/type of project you could average a number of ressource per M$. That doesn't replace a evaluation the team from human ressource assign to activities.
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phan mem nha hang cafe ABC Brigham, United Kingdom
Mar 30, 2017 11:25 AM
Replying to Miguel Quiquinta
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Question of chicken and egg: What comes first, sizing or prioritization? what are pros and cons of either one vs the other?
You're funny!

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