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Agency capacity planning: 11 steps to better margins

Resource Guru

Plus, it’ll help you better estimate project costs and allocate resources effectively to maximize margins. Match strategy—Monitor and adjust resource demand As a combination of the lead and lag strategies, the match strategy involves careful monitoring of the current demands on your agency.

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How to Calculate Realistic Time Estimates for a Project

Teamweek

Inaccurate time estimation is the cause of 25% of failed projects. Learning how to estimate time for a project is tricky, but critical to its success. In this guide we’ll go over: What is time estimating in project management? Why is estimating time for tasks important? What is time estimating in project management?

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Project management best practices that work

Proofhub

Here are some facts and statistics that will make you reconsider your PM methods, activities, and tools: Out of 50,000 projects in the study , the bulk of them failed to meet at least one of the following criteria: on budget, on time, and satisfactory results. What tools will enable the fastest and most productive communication?

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What is Resource Smoothing in Project Management? [Guide]

Teamweek

In this article, you’ll learn how resource smoothing can be done simply, using techniques and tools that simplify your job and drive results. Website launch deadlines: Imagine a digital agency with a critical website launch in two weeks’ time. Two web developers are working overtime, while a designer has spare time.

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A Guide to Project Management Software for Web Designers 

Ganttic

Key Features of Project Management Software Necessary for Great Web Design Project management software is actually a broad category of SaaS. Depending on your project management methodology and how you prefer to work, the exact tools can vary widely. But at the end of the day, here’s the main features that you can come to expect.

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Agency resource planning and management guide

Resource Guru

Resource forecasting (estimating your resource needs over a given period) is a key part of budgeting as an agency. Missing a resource management tool (or still using spreadsheets) Without a resource management tool, trying to streamline capacity planning and resource management tasks costs time and causes headaches.

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Resource Forecasting Guide for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

But unfortunately, many resource managers have to rely on approximation and guesswork because they don’t have the right tools and techniques. In the dynamic business environment, companies need accurate estimations for timely decision-making and futureproofing workforce availability against market volatilities.