PROJ 586 Week 3 Discussion; Resource Utilization

WEEK 3: RESOURCE UTILIZATION Managing resources and schedule compression can be an interesting and sometimes difficult job. How have you managed resources on any of your projects? What do you find as the most difficult part? How do you compress the schedule of your project? You are to submit three quality posts over 3 different days, with the first post on or before Wednesday for each graded discussion topic. Answer: 1. Good Morning Dr. Jay, I too can't say that I have been in charge of a project on the job professionally, at least in the academic sense of the word. I do however have some experience deliverables such as managing resources and compressing schedules for a particular task. I manage resources everyday however with regards to the uniforms and the my guards are mandated to wear during their regular shift. The uniforms themselves present a particularly difficult equation in that the procurement team is an informal mechanism and often fails to deliver on the proper uniforms. The PPE procurement is much more routine and typically runs much more smoothly. We do this in collaboration with the client site. We have rarely had issues with obtaining the proper PPE even during a global pandemic. While this is not likely at the same level as a project manager, it continues to be an obstacle that is a part of my daily routine. 2. A very hard part about being a resource is being able to complete your tasks in a timeframe that is expected when it isn't feasible. I have had it done to me and I have done it to others when I was managing projects. As a manager, understanding that the timelines that you put on tasking cannot be based on your wants but on a reasonable timeframe can be difficult. The pressure to complete a project as fast as possible can lead to putting unrealistic timeframe expectations on tasking. This can happen as well from a project manager not understanding what is really involved in the tasking and not talking to the subject matter experts about the timeline. The end result will be that the tasking will slip and be c