Project Resource Pool: Are Your People Drowning?

Project Resource Pool: Are Your People Drowning?: The best way to judge how an organization is doing in managing its projects is to spend a little time talking to the people in the resource pool, particularly those working on multiple projects. These people are working on the organization's projects and they usually have a "real" job in addition to several project assignments. If people in the resource pool have a schedule that tells them when they're supposed to work on tasks from each of their assigned projects, the resource pool is in pretty good shape for handling the heavy cross- functional project load. Bit if people are routinely surprised by new project assignments that seem to spring from the undergrowth and there are conflicts between their assignments on the different projects, the organization is doing a poor job on its project processes. The likely result is project failure rates that approach 75% as well as high turnover among the organization's most productive people. They tire of 60 and 70 hour work weeks and being constantly caught in the battle for their time between project managers and executives. Let's analyze how this problem occurs and what organizations need to do to solve it.

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