Do you experience high turnover due to "burn out" of key project contributors because they are working on
too many projects? Do you need to be able to view at a glance what your staff is working on today, or
forecast what they will be working on in the future? Resource management is all about being able to answer
questions like the following:
- Who is working on what?
- How much more work will it take to finish?
The foundation for good resource management is project time management, the process of individuals recording
their effort spent working on a specific task in order to report status. Project time management requires
the use of tools and policies to create a standard for monitoring and measuring project work.
Cognitive Technologies helps our clients implement time management and enable improved resource management by:
- Making recommendations and facilitating client decisions on the processes and policies that will be established and enforced, adapting to the organization's culture and ability to accept change
- Assess the tools currently used to do project time management and the gap between how they work and what they provide and the client's desired resource management
- Facilitate the identification of additional or replacement tools to procure and determining how these new tools will affect the processes and policies the client wishes to follow
- Develop and implement a change management strategy to ensure the organization buys in and supports the new processes for project time management
- Train the organization's members in the new processes and tools for project time management
- Create and assist in implementing a project plan and schedule to develop, implement, and rollout the new project time management solution.
Cognitive Technologies can install and configure a resource management solution comprised of tools appropriate
to the client organization's size and complexity. Our ProLaunch™ implementation service is an example of an
end-to-end solution in this space. It provides clients with the processes, training, and configurations needed
to track time and resources for Microsoft® projects using Journyx ProjectXecute™. The Cognitive team
coordinates, schedules, and plans the implementation of key processes for project time and resource management.
We work with the client team to configure Journyx ProjectXecute™ with Microsoft® Project to provide synchronized
data on tasks and projects. Finally, we train the client team to use these tools and processes effectively.
For information on how to improve project time and resource management, contact Cognitive Technologies'
resource management specialists.