Organizational Utilization
Reality Check: Organizational Capacity Part 2
Realizing real resource management can be hard to swallow. For many organizations, just being able to visualize a current supply model in an excel spreadsheet is a god-send! Realizing Resource Capacity management is a much bigger thing, with a much bigger gain.
In this article we will lay out the phases and details to realizing resource capacity management.
Organizations are not typically ready for a big bang approach. We created Waves, Phases, Tracks,etc. to indicate inccemental steps to realization.
Reality Check: Organizational Capacity
For organizations that have already developed and roll out an enterprise project management methodology, the next item to tackle may be the organizational portfolio. It is very common to have projects neatly organized and the visibility and focus on project success based upon on-time, on budget and schedule metrics.
Following an integrated process where the strategy and budget precede the lifecycle of project work, organizations and managers find solace in the operating model. What is slowly realized is, that while everything is flowing smoothly, there are recognizable gaps at a much higher level. Lower level impacts are usually hidden by managers who are simply surviving, using whatever archaic method to maintain independence and freedom from corporate intervention. What is this gap? Where are my people, who are my people and why can’t I deliver on my corporate strategies?
