Posted: May 8th, 2015

Week-5 Assignment

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Discussion Question 1
Answer those questions. 
– Why is it important to identify and schedule resources correctly early rather than later?

– What are some of the best practices you would use if faced with situations where your resources were over allocated. ?

– What are some key steps you would take as a project manager to get the ‘best’ performance possible from the resources assigned to your project?

You also want to make sure you will have the critical resources available when you need them or identify gaps as soon as possible

– Did you consider 1st to analyze why?, priority to critical path activities, overtime, training,

– You listed some very good best practices and can you think of other actions you could consider in maximizing the performance of resources (ie, setting clear goals and guidelines, involving your team in decision making, a rewards system etc)