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Resource Management Center
Resource Management is the top challenge faced by PMOs, according to PM Solutions’ 2010 State of the PMO research study. To help address the challenge of resource management, we’ve compiled a number of our best writings and thinking on the subject to help you succeed in performing effective Resource Management within your own organization.
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Resource Management Q&A
In our recent webinar on resource management, Kent Crawford, CEO of PM Solutions, received more questions than he could answer. Here are the overflow questions with Kent’s answers. Take a listen.
- When there is significant pushback from staff and you are trying to make a culture change within your organization, do you have any suggestions to ease the transition?
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- What percentage of resource time should functional managers plan for new projects?
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- What kind of structure do you recommend for the PMO? Do you suggest having all project managers centralized in one unit, or distributed to the operational units?
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- Our major challenge is making the PM understand that capacity is one of the main constraints to manage. How can portfolio management support awareness on this subject?
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- What are the challenges and obstacles associated with establishing a centralized Resource Management organization?
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- What if the organization views an enterprise PMO as too political and defers to the capability within the department?
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- Is it possible to conduct some high-level, rough-cut, resource analysis in a situation where the projects in the portfolio do not have well-established information on the resource requirements?
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- How do you address the issue where an organization feels that they are results-driven because they are more about “doing” than about “planning”?
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- How do you forecast resource requirements, and what tools can you utilize?
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- In a weak-matrix organization, one problem is getting consistent buy-in from top management to adopt resource management strategies. Where can we establish the value of these strategies to sell them to management?
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- Do you have any project management templates, tools or suggestions to help us improve?
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- We have spent three years building IT resource supply and demand management processes and tools that meet our specific needs. We are now considering commercial PPM tools but we are overwhelmed with the size and complexity of these tools. Any suggestions on how to get started?
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- What's the best project and resource management software to use for a small office (under 25)?
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- How do you overcome the resistance from business units to “give up” the resources to a centralized organization?
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- What strategies or processes can you recommend for reconciling project prioritization and resource allocation with respect to critical path activities versus non-critical path activities? Said another way, how do you manage resource allocation in favor of critical path activities on low-priority projects against non-critical path activities on high-priority projects?
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- My organization has centralized resources and moved to a matrixed model. However, this seems to have created more conflicts instead of helping to better manage capacity. How do you suggest balancing this model between delivery areas within the same organization that handle major initiatives with other delivery areas that are largely “Run the Business,” but all needing the same resources?
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Resource Management and the PMO