Introduction To Resource Management And Capacity Planning

Learn the importance of resource management and capacity planning to execute successful projects

What you'll learn

Understand resource and capacity planning and why they are relevant

Learn how to use the Gantt chart to visualize your project plan

Learn how to analyze, adjust, and manage resources for individual and multiple projects

Understand how agile methods for resource planning differ from other methods

Requirements

No previous experience necessary, we will teach you everything from the beginning

Description

This course is a continuation and supplement to the course “Become a Results Driven Project Manager” from OpExecs Academy. In this course, you will learn the importance of resource and capacity planning and why you should develop a resource management approach to your projects. You will discover the different levels of resource planning and how to use specific tools to help manage your project plans. You will also learn how to utilize the Gantt chart to balance your project plan against your current resources to ensure that your organization has the capacity to execute. You will discover how to calculate the critical path and identify tasks that have a large time requirement to estimate the additional cost above the manhours of time required to execute the project. Additionally, you will learn how to deploy the Gantt of Gantts and stacked area chart to look at all of the projects within the organization to better plan resource hours and even the load of multiple projects across the organization. Once you grasp the traditional methods for resource planning, you will discover how agile methods for resource planning differ from traditional methods. This will allow you to recognize the environment where an agile methodology would be a good fit for the project and allow you to use these approaches to plan resources, generate timely results, and give your team a competitive edge.Following this training you will be able to:Understand the importance of resource and capacity planningRecognize why you should develop a resource management approach to your projectsIdentify the different levels of resource planningUnderstand why you need a project planIdentify milestones and possible project phasesCreate a Gantt chart to manage individual projects along with multiple projectsCalculate the critical path for a projectEstimate the additional costs required to execute your projectUse the Gantt of Gantts and stacked area chart to manage multiple projects within an organizationAnalyze and document gapsTake steps as required to adjust your project planUnderstand and apply the four principles of the Agile manifestoRecognize the specific agile methodology called scrum and how it changes the way you conduct resource planningDefine the roles, artifacts, and types of ceremonies held using the scrum methodologyPlan and select the scope for a sprint using the resource assessment tools that an agile team might useDetermine the environment where an agile methodology would be a good fit for the projectUse Microsoft Planner with Microsoft Teams to plan and collaborate on tasks

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome to the Advanced Module

Lecture 2 Learning Objectives

Section 2: What is the relevance of resource and capacity planning?

Lecture 3 What is resource and capacity planning?

Lecture 4 Why should you develop a resource management approach?

Lecture 5 What are the different levels of resource planning?

Section 3: Use a Gantt chart to visually represent your project plan

Lecture 6 Why do you need a project plan?

Lecture 7 Identify milestones and possible project phases

Lecture 8 Develop and document high level tasks that support the milestones

Lecture 9 Create the Gantt chart view for a one page summary

Lecture 10 Modify your Gantt chart to start resource planning

Section 4: Analyze, adjust, and manage your resources for multiple projects

Lecture 11 Analyze and document gaps

Lecture 12 Take steps as required to adjust your project plan

Lecture 13 Manage resources for multiple projects

Section 5: How do agile methods for resource planning differ from other methods?

Lecture 14 How do agile methods for resource planning differ from other methods?

Lecture 15 Develop your resource plan

Individuals who want to become more effective project managers, leaders and strategic thinkers.