Resource shortages and conflicts can plague your ability to deliver.

As new initiatives come along, do you have the resources to carry out the work? If work demands exceed the supply of resources, what do you do? We will work with you to address these business challenges with proven approaches to reach equilibrium and properly forecast upcoming initiatives within the project portfolio.

In each demand management engagement, we focus on evaluating your existing PPM and Resource Management practices, and making the necessary improvements in these two critical areas so they function in concert with one another to provide essential information that drives intelligent management decisions and actions.

Understanding the resource capacity and skill sets that exist within your organization gives you the ability to balance demand and apply the right resources at the right time. We will help you to obtain, structure, and analyse your resource management information and practices to use your talent effectively and streamline resource deployment.

Organizational Skills Identification

The first step is to uncover the skills, roles, and resources that currently reside within the organization. From this data, a simple categorization structure can be developed. This will facilitate resource allocation decisions across the organization. The Project Management Office (PMO) and departments such as HR are often involved in this process.

Resource Planning & Forecasting

Once you have a handle on the overall resources available within your organization, you need to get a clear picture of the availability of these resources to support the initiatives within your project portfolio. We recommend a resource management database be created and tied to project priorities. We can help you perform resource estimates (including resource loading and levelling) against your resource limitations, and also run "what if" scenarios to factor in new initiatives relative to resource impact and availability.

We are skilled at analysing any resource shortages or added capacity uncovered, and recommending the appropriate actions that will bring the most value and cost savings to the organization (contracting, hiring, using resources earlier, etc.). We can work with your existing tools, provide you with the tools, and/or help you procure the right tools to effectively perform resource management functions scaled to your organization's size and needs.