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Resource planning

Resource planning

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Resource planning

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- There are three levels of resource planning. The network diagram made with posted notes, which assumes infinite capacity. Then the basic Gantt chart, which looks at capacity for just that one project in isolation. And then the Gantt of Gantts, which looks at the big picture of the team or department or the company as a whole. But what if you have specialist resources, maybe computer programmers or engineers or lawyers or something that can do one project but not another. This is a difficult problem because it's a cube. You've got a cube of projects, time and resource type, so a normal spreadsheet can't easily show it. But there are two principles that you can use to help solve this problem of which order to do your projects. First, you could take one slice of the cube, once you know what your bottleneck resource is, and just look at time and projects for that one resource. So this will look like the Gantt of Gantts that…

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