Resource Tracking
Knowing when work begins and completes is only part of project tracking. True project management includes Resource Tracking – determining how many staff members of a particular department have been engaged in performing a particular task and how long they worked on the task. With a history of resource tracking, each department should be able to perform capacity planning for the months and years ahead. A goal of portfolio management should be to predict situations that either dramatically reduce departmental resource need or dramatically escalate departmental resource need. Capacity planning is thought to be more challenging in Discovery where the processes can be less routine, (but is this true?)
We have created a downloadable PDF file on Resource Tracking that you may wish to consider. In this white paper we discuss the following subjects.
1. Elements of a Robust Resource Tracking System
2. Differences Between Discovery and Development that Influence Resource Tracking
3. Dedicated versus As-Required Resource
4. Discontinuous Application of Resource – the Reality
5. Resource Tracking – What You Get
6. In-house vs. External Resource Application
7. Project Dependence and Stage Independence of Resource Application
8. Resource Analysis and Capacity Planning