Resource Management
Reduce risk by dynamically managing resources, capacity, and demand
Maximize Organizational Efficiency
Today’s strategic portfolio managers must be able to perform basic steps across large-scale, cross-functional teams — which creates immediate challenges due to disconnected tools and processes. Outdated reporting structures and organizational models inhibiting capacity planning pose competing priorities and also contribute to increasing inefficiencies in resource management. Effective resource management and capacity planning increases value delivery through end-to-end visibility of capacity and resources, maximized resource efficiency, minimized risk of oversubscribing resources, and improved planning and forecasting for long-term organizational value.
Typical customer outcomes with IBM Targetprocess
increase in realized spend on strategic priorities
faster product delivery cycles
improvement in cycle time and velocity among Jira teams
Resource Management Helps You…
- Gain end-to-end visibility into capacity, resources, and details of work
- Minimize risk of oversubscribing resources
- Improve planning and forecasting for long-term organizational value
- Capture and review baseline resource information: people, skills, rates, availability, and time zones
Traditional Resource Management Challenges
Optimize resources and minimize risks associated with inaccurate capacity planning.
Increase agility by quickly sourcing information needed to plan and manage resource assignments.
Quickly adjust resourcing and capacity in response to sudden changes in priorities or budgets, ensuring prioritized work supports strategic objectives.
Support Digital Business Resource Management with Targetprocess
- Act as a common source of truth containing all work and available resources.
- Help identify over-allocated or underutilized resources in a visual/graphical manner.
- Connect resource cost and utilization financials with automatic cost forecasting.
- Manage dashboards that allow optimization of incoming demands against capacity in a flexible way.
- Monitor the impact of changes in real-time with multiple views of reports to minimize inefficiency and overutilization for the most value.
Typical Customer Outcomes
Growth in talent productivity
Re-prioritization or elimination of low-value work
Increase in forecasting accuracy
The transformative power of Enterprise Agile Planning
Whether your organization operates under traditional waterfall framework, pure Agile methodologies or a hybrid of both, Enterprise Agile Planning (EAP) has the power to transform the way your business creates value. It enables you to adapt more quickly to market demands, deliver projects more efficiently, and provides a unified approach to strategic objectives.