{"id":727,"date":"2010-09-23T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/product-pulse.planview.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2016-11-18T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T19:00:40","slug":"resource-capacity-planning-quadrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/resource-capacity-planning-quadrant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Capacity Quadrant: Four Keys to Improved Resource Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organizations often cite resource management as their most overwhelming challenge. Despite the best-laid plans, they just can&#8217;t get a handle on getting the right people available at the right time. Because of this, they sometimes resist taking on new projects and products for fear of the ability to deliver. Or worse, they take on unlimited demand, managing as if they have infinite capacity. Improved resource planning seems impossible.<\/p>\n<p>These organizations need a clear picture of resource availability to confidently take on new projects and react to sudden market opportunities. Otherwise, valuable resources are wasted or misused.<\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s no silver bullet for capacity planning and resource management, there are four distinct dynamics that can greatly improve success and help an organization become proactive instead of reactive. Together, these dynamics make up what we can call <em>The Capacity Quadrant<\/em>. The four components that make up this framework are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Visibility:<\/strong> This includes improving visibility across three lenses, those of <em>Demand<\/em>, <em>Capacity<\/em>, and finally, the <em>System<\/em> lens (i.e., using a systems thinking approach to identify the many variables that can impact resource workload, efficiency, and productivity).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prioritization:<\/strong> This requires understanding organizational goals and priorities, creating flexible scoring mechanisms that can encompass all discretionary work (not just large projects), and awareness of the linkages between projects and products on the roadmap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Optimization:<\/strong> Here you can maximize your resources by focusing them on the most critical work; limiting the volume of primary demand objectives; tightening the resources on secondary objectives; and addressing efficiency issues identified during the whole system analysis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Iteration:<\/strong> This involves planning capacity and demand at varying levels of detail at different points in the planning horizon. Early on, top-down high level plans are appropriate, with more detailed planning occurring as the work approaches. The two views should be reconciled during each planning iteration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In essence, by understanding the four key dynamics that impact capacity planning, organizations can demystify resource management, make more informed decisions, and maximize their resources toward high value activities.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for an upcoming white paper on this topic, where I&#8217;ll be exploring the Capacity Quadrant in more detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizations often cite resource management as their most overwhelming challenge. Despite the best-laid plans, they just can&#8217;t get a handle on getting the right people available at the right time. Because of this, they sometimes resist taking on new projects and products for fear of the ability to deliver. Or worse, they take on unlimited&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[475],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-development","tag-resource-management"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Improved Resource Planning - Blog | Planview<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Improved resource planning is a challenge for many companies. 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