pmo365‘s Resource Management workflow offers a real-time, flexible solution that brings all your resource allocation information under one umbrella. It is essential for organisations managing multiple projects and portfolios, enabling you to make reliable projections of capacity based on current (or expected) supply and demand. The workflow integrates with pmo365‘s real-time reporting and dashboards to monitor progress in project tasks, and helps you manage risk with reliable indicators of performance. The Project Management Office (PMO), project managers, and stakeholders all benefit from understanding exactly where enterprise resources are being deployed at any time along the project or portfolio’s lifecycle.
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Resource Management lets you manage resource requests and approvals for all projects, from the initiation stage right through to delivery. The workflow assists in the allocation of labour and non-labour resources to new projects, it can issue bulk assignments to teams (pools), as well as create variation requests to alter allocations if requirements change. A single workflow provides seamless control over all your resource requirements and acquisition details across the entire portfolio.
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Why Choose pmo365 for Resource Management?
The Resource Management workflow integrates directly with all your other pmo365 apps (including Timesheets, Contract and Risk Management, and third-party enterprise reporting platforms). With Resource Management you can tailor your pmo365 solution for the internal and external logic you require. It identifies skillsets and particular talents and intuitively makes staffing suggestions based on the skills required. It also suggests alternative plans when conflicts arise, comparing resources requested against those currently available even while projects are in progress.
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pmo365 is not a single productivity tool, but a versatile PPM solution that provides the best Apps, Flows, Reports and Connectors tailored to the unique requirements of your project managers and the PMO. You select the most useful features and we develop the components according to how you want to use them. Configuration customises the solution to your needs, and project data is safely stored on your Microsoft cloud for instantaneous access across the organisation.
pmo365‘s comprehensive, fully connected platform keeps all your project management tools and information within easy reach and all stakeholders reliably informed of project progress.
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Key Features of Resource Management
The Procurement and Contract Governance workflow provides:
- The automation of resource assignment to new work activities, including new project tasks.
- Manual or automatic escalations of available resources to perform tasks (including variation requests) for rapid response.
- Bulk assignments of resources for activities requiring working teams (or ‘pools’ of talent)
- A comprehensive logic for each proposed assignment.
- The ability to implement project resource management on non-labour items (e.g. equipment and materials)
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Resource Management?
Resource Management is the identification, allocation and tracking of resources during project delivery to ensure optimum efficiency. Resources can include tangible assets like equipment, materials, and facilities, as well as intangible resources like human capital, time, and budgets. To that end, the coherent and co-ordinated management of project managers, team members, and other stakeholders is essential.
What are the Benefits of Using pmo365 with Resource Management?
Poor coordination of resources in project delivery leads to shortages, cost blowouts, and scope creep. Securing resources at the right time and at the right place without delays is at the heart of effective project portfolio management. pmo365‘s Resource Management assists by:
- Continuously comparing resources requested with resources available and suggesting alternative plans when conflicts arise.
- Accurately identifying the skillsets and talents of labour resources and making recommendations based on the skills currently available.
- Using predictive tools to model project delivery beyond the current stage of activity.
- Retaining all project information in an auto-updating resource plan which is accessible to key stakeholders like resource managers and owners.
Why is Resource Management Important for Project Management?
Effective resource management maximises productivity and helps managers to meet project deadlines, keeps costs in control, and prevents resource conflicts. pmo365’s comprehensive and systematic resource management tools let project managers make data-driven decisions and quickly adapt to sudden changes in project requirements. Overall, this leads to more successful project outcomes and a more strategic organisational focus.
How Does pmo365 Help You with Resource Management?
pmo365 is a fully modular system. Each App, Flow, Report or Connector easily plugs into place to build the real-time project portfolio management system you require. And, because it’s modular and highly customisable, the ability of pmo365 to evolve and change with your needs as you grow is built into the system – not as an afterthought. We provide tailored solutions to manage all project information and tasks with the latest, best-practice collaborative tools. Instantaneous data updates and integrations of all the project management tools you currently use ensures up-to-the-minute performance and powerful strategic insights now and into the future.
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