{"id":1227,"date":"2012-10-08T01:27:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2012-09-26T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T19:43:04","slug":"resource-leveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/10\/resource-leveling\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource Leveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resource leveling is an obscure term in project management. It is, however, paramount to project success.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You are planning a project or planning some work that involves a limited number of people. You lay out all the tasks that must be performed and record all the resources needed to perform each task. Resources include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>people<\/li>\n<li>time<\/li>\n<li>objects (test equipment, computers, offices, tools, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You are not ready to begin work. First, you should perform (trumpet blast) <em>resource leveling<\/em>. This is where you examine which resources are needed at what time. Resource leveling tells you things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bob will work 92 hours a week for the first month of the project<\/li>\n<li>Your only delivery truck will be used by 16 different people everyday between noon and 3PM<\/li>\n<li>Ten people will use your drill press Monday at 10AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are not good situations. You are over-using some resources. You are in an impossible situation where time, space, matter, and other such laws of physics will destroy your project.<\/p>\n<p>Resource leveling means you have to straighten out this mess.<\/p>\n<p>For Bob, you will try to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>find other people who can do the work Bob is scheduled to do<\/li>\n<li>move some of Bob&#8217;s work to the second month of the project<\/li>\n<li>eliminate some of the tasks Bob is scheduled to perform<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You do the same for the other over-scheduled resources.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t level the work of your resources, you will have people standing around pointing fingers at each other and saying things like, &#8220;If you touch that drill press I will fill-in-the-blank-with-something-you-wouldn&#8217;t-want-to-see-happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Resource leveling isn&#8217;t much fun. You have to decide what to do; you have to decide what is more important. No, not much fun. The result of avoiding resource leveling is even less fun. Please do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Resource leveling is an obscure term in project management. It is, however, paramount to project success. You are planning a project or planning some work that involves a limited number of people. You lay out all the tasks that must be performed and record all the resources needed to perform each task. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,9,97],"tags":[176,132,212],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estimation","category-management","category-planning","tag-estimation","tag-management","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}