Businesses that manage multiple projects face two conflicting objectives:

1. To keep their clients happy, they must ensure that each and every project gets delivered on time, within budget and to the required specification.
2. For the operation to be profitable,

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managing a portfolio of projects with a limited pool of resources is no easy ride. Just when all looks to be in balance a project change comes along creating an unacceptable resource bottleneck. Having too few staff can jeopardize the committed dates and risk disappointing your clients,

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With senior UK government figures castigating businesses whenever they express legitimate concerns, a Brexit disaster seems headed our way. As the uncertain future erodes confidence, and levels of investment fall, what can UK businesses do to retain their competitiveness? One way for project-based ones is to focus on optimising the utilisation of their staff,

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GDPR has finally arrived and many clients and suppliers, including providers of workforce planning software, are struggling to agree their responsibilities. The regulations cover such a wide range of organisations, from those that manage mass marketing campaigns through to ones that hold highly sensitive data,

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Clients increasingly require that only suitably qualified staff are assigned to their projects. Advances in technology are rapidly increasing specialisation of the workforce and locating suitable staff requires more data on each person’s skills and experience. Just take a look at the range of Training and Certification options on the Cisco website to see the exponential growth in available options!

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Managing multiple projects with a limited pool of resources can be a wild ride. As soon as the project demand is in balance with the skills capacity, something changes; a new project arrives, there is a scope change, or the client postpones the next phase.

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IT departments in large organisations are keen to minimise the number of system that they need to maintain. They have a strong incentive to go for ERP , enterprise project management (EPM) software  and other large corporate systems to avoid a multiplicity of best of breed systems.

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The completion of a project should be a cause for celebration, but too often the outcome disappoints. Recent history is littered with projects that have overrun in cost and time and failed to meet expectations. The root cause is often that the project was not properly scoped,

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Program resource management is not for the faint hearted. Managing a portfolio of projects with a limited pool of resources can be a wild ride due to divergent, conflicting objectives.

Project managers are charged with meeting their key project milestones and will demand adequate resources to ensure that every one can be achieved on time.

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