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24 agency tools that will set your teams (and clients) up for success

Resource Guru

Agency tools have one job and one job only: enable teams across all departments to do their jobs better (and help them deliver results for clients). That said, there’s an abundance of tools for agencies to choose from. We’ve curated a selection of tools based on category and customer reviews.

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Agency utilization rate: 9 steps to increasing billable time

Resource Guru

It’s often said that you can’t improve what you aren’t measuring—your agency utilization rate is a near-perfect example of that adage. Below, our expert-led guide with real-world insights goes deeper into what agency utilization rates are, how they’re calculated, why they matter, and how to optimize them to help drive agency growth.

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Part II: A Simplified Approach to Determine IT Project Complexity

PM Times

It will discuss why the Core IT Complexity model is a good approach for most IT organizations and why it is important to determine project complexity as an ongoing and integral part of the Change Management and Risk Management process. Written by: Conrad MacCue Abstract. 2021, March 5). Introduction.

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6 major factors affecting resource capacity planning in 2019

Resource Guru

Resource capacity planning is the umbrella of methods business leaders use to quantify their team’s bandwidth for projects. Most firms tend to need a diversity of skill sets, like administrators, programmers, consultants, designers, and analysts, to complete any given project. Wishful thinking. 15 account managers.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. Tanilkan, Hans Gallis, Anette C. Lien, and Siw E.

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Risk Management Resources

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Pich, Working Paper, 21/2006, Cambridge University, Judge Business School. “A A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A Risk Management Papers. “A De Meyer, C. 5887, 2009.