Resource Visibility
Business slow down in the last couple of years forced the companies to make their operations more efficient. Gone are the days when the Big 4 of the IT industry were happy to have an average bench size of 20%-25%. Enhancing productivity has become the norm. It is not an easy task though. The Big 4 of the Indian IT industry have more than 100,000 employees each. It must surely be a nightmare to boost productivity at such a scale. Compared to that, managing a small to mid size company might appear like a cake walk. But the fact that these smaller companies do not have appropriate Management Information systems makes their task equally challenging.
Business slow down in the last couple of years forced the companies to make their operations more efficient. Gone are the days when the Big 4 of the IT industry were happy to have an average bench size of 20%-25%. Enhancing productivity has become the norm. It is not an easy task though. The Big 4 of the Indian IT industry have more than 100,000 employees each. It must surely be a nightmare to boost productivity at such a scale. Compared to that, managing a small to mid size company might appear like a cake walk. But the fact that these smaller companies do not have appropriate Management Information systems makes their task equally challenging.
Resource utilization, hence productivity, can be increased if we can precisely identify their slack time. So, having resource visibility is the first step towards creating efficiencies. GWD Suite (Project Module to be precise) has a simple yet effective feature – Resource Visibility Matrix – to give the planners the visibility of all the employees.
Resource Visibility Matrix gives detailed insight into task allocation for all the employees. Managers can use this insight to improve project planning i.e. identify bottle necks, streamline resource loading and manage employees’ skills (some of which may be critical and rare) efficiently, thus boosting efficiency and project profitability.
Caution!
Multi tasking is a highly over rated word. Loading your employees with too many tasks at a time will surely backfire. Too much time is wasted in context switching and ultimately this will lead to burn out. Prudence and restraint is required of the project managers. Resource Visibility matrix or any other tool for that matter, should be used for optimal task allocation.
Multi tasking is a highly over rated word. Loading your employees with too many tasks at a time will surely backfire. Too much time is wasted in context switching and ultimately this will lead to burn out. Prudence and restraint is required of the project managers. Resource Visibility matrix or any other tool for that matter, should be used for optimal task allocation.
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