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Demand Management

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Do you know what all your resources are working on?

 

Are they working on your high priority projects?

 

Do you have the resources with the right skills to accomplish your portfolio? If not, why not?

 

Functional (line/resource) managers in most companies maintain their own resource plans - even where enterprise management systems have been deployed. Why?

  • Because they need a simple method for capturing current assignments and for scoping proposed demand
  • Planning and re-planning activities occur frequently, often with high urgency in a very short planning window

What is missing from the portfolio and business point of view?

  • Consolidation of all resource plans
  • Integration with project plans
  • Prioritized resource supply-demand analysis

The PDWare approach

  • Capture: project priority, schedule, and other attributes
  • Resource/skill supply
  • Resource/skill demand spreadsheet data
  • Dynamically review, modify, and analyze skills mix and other prioritized supply-demand issues to define an achievable portfolio.