Allocating and Managing Constrained Resources

This chapter provides a variety of techniques for monitoring the resources used within your project. The emphasis is on human resources, but the principles can be applied to any project resource.

Geometric Resource-Optimization Techniques

So far, we've focused on several ways living order can disrupt your best-laid resource allocation plans. But that's not to say that, when thinking about resources, you should dispense with careful, geometric-order planning. Far from it. In the next two sections, we look at some helpful resource-optimization techniques.