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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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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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Interview with Laura Dallas Burford

Stepping Into Project Management

I hope all of you are having an amazing year 2014, t oday we interview Laura Dallas Burford; who is a vision mover with domestic and international experience who focuses on partnering with management by aligning strategy and projects. What has been the most challenging for you as a project manager?

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management.

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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

Herding Cats

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. Google will find these when there is no URL provided.