Planning resources in a technology landscape

Every industry has its own unique challenges to project and program management and the tech industry is no different. There are two main aspects to resourcing that are consistent across the tech industry and are worth exploring in more depth: prioritization and team overhead.

Prioritization

From my experience, and through the interviews I conducted for this book, tech companies don’t follow a projectized resourcing model where a project is formed, resources are assigned, and the project keeps the same funding throughout the life of the project. Instead, these large companies utilize capacity-constrained prioritization, where they perform multiple prioritization exercises throughout the year to align their existing capacity to the most strategic projects. The frequency of these exercises varies from company to company and, in some cases, team to team, but can happen as often as monthly, quarterly, yearly, or some combination...