The Everything Guide to Resource Capacity Planning

In a services-based business, resource capacity planning is key to planning and strategizing your people utilization based on the forecasted future capacity and demand. Capacity planning helps to identify where you may have excess or shortages with your staff, whether it’s their time or skills for a particular project. This enables you to determine if you have enough people for upcoming projects or if you have a shortage and need to hire or defer projects to a later date.

With this information easily accessible, you can build an optimized project team, reduce costs, and stabilize your workforce against the potential market and economic volatility. With improved resource planning, you will always be able to know what commitments you can make to your clients and when, provide them with the best people for the job, and stay ahead of the market.

In this video, we discuss how resource planning works in detail in a services business, how it improves project management, the business benefits of improving the process, and our preferred tools and systems that enable successful resource planning in a growing business.