If your project plan and the payroll system had a baby, it would be capacity planning. Capacity planning is at the junction of knowing the demand for resource and the supply. In my experience, even when your project management software does have resource pool features like Microsoft Project, they feel complicated to set up and maintain. A tool that makes capacity planning easy, like Resource Guru, bridge the gap between your project plan and the people working on it.
Key Takeaways:
- Capacity planning is at the junction of knowing the demand for resource (the project plans) and the supply (who is on the payroll).
- It relies on having a single resource pool which you can use to track people, their skills and availability and other resources like rooms or equipment.
- Capacity management tools give you a view of how much time resources have available so you can see who’s free at a glance.
“The project manager continued to work weekends and evenings to get through the work, because she cared about the project.”
