Advanced Multi-Project Management: Achieving Outstanding Speed and Results with Predictability

Staggering of projects according to an organization’s project capacity Resource-based project networks that meet the organization’s goals Strategic buffers used to managing project Murphy or variation A single priority system in execution Fast, daily execution management A consistent project recovery process

However, even when project managers suspect there is a problem, they don’t want to be accused of micromanaging, so they often find themselves in a conflict—call now for help or wait until the disaster is proven!

The more resources we can assign to a task, without causing unmanageable waste in executing the task, the fewer tasks we will have active. The fewer the number of active tasks, the more management and support group attention can be given to active tasks, and therefore the shorter each task will wait for decisions and actions by any other group in t

The second element that will prevent a lot of future firefighting is the proper definition of project scope and networks for all new or recently activated projects.

If this person cannot resolve an issue quickly (within the day), they escalate the issue to a fast-track issue resolution daily process meeting.

A resource manager must be able to quickly and easily see the planned short-, medium-, and long-term demands on resources, based on current estimated workloads.

Overall project priorities are used to determine when to release a project into the system, based on which project is most important to the organization’s leaders. Task priorities are used during execution of all projects to determine which task on which project to work on, based on which task most endangers a project due date commitment.

When the signal is given that a project is in danger, project and resource managers must know how they can work together in case recovery is needed. If options are not identified in advance, the typical approach is to escalate, which can result in overreaction and chaos. The organization must have sufficient capacity and skills to recover from typi

Frequent priority changes. If resources must be frequently moved or pulled off tasks that have already been started, it is a sign that the entire system is out of control.