Resource Utilization

It’s been over an year that I’ve been made an unit head. And in this time my team has grown significantly. And most of them are either Juniors/Trainees. And I need to train them up. Training is not cheap either. It’s an investment that I’ll eventually have to get back…

Growing the business and services is the topmost priority for every organization. Simply adding resources to projects does not guarantee productivity. They must be effectively utilized on billable or strategic work to get maximum efficiency of the resource. Many cost centers set a minimum utilization target for the resources that…

In case of booking a service appointment, the system has to allocate certain resources with proper skills to execute required service tasks. Once you have to overbook resources you need to understand how to distribute working hours among personnel. …

We have a sticker that says “utilisation is the enemy of flow”. All too often at work, we want everyone to be super busy all of the time — without realising it, we are killing our ability to deliver. This is what Henrik Kniberg of Crisp calls “The resource utilisation trap”. In the video below, he takes us through why keeping people busy stops them from getting things done.

While there are several important metric and key performance indicators (KPI) in the project management world, few are as important to the success of projects and the health of portfolios as resource utilization. What is Resource Utilization? Resource utilization in project management focuses on how much time team members spend…

Look around at the folks on your team, and ask yourself “Is everyone tasked with stuff?”, and, “Is everybody busy with tickets?”. In short, Is utilization at capacity? Ok, you did that, right? I’m guessing that the answer to the above questions either is, or should be, “YES”, right? And…