Peak season hits. Your inbox is full, Slack is buzzing, and deadlines are piling up. In the chaos, one thought stands out: How will we get all this done? Does this sound familiar?  Welcome to agency life—where creativity meets constant pressure. Hard work keeps things moving, but there’s one process that helps you stay ahead … Read more

This article compares long and short-term term workforce planning, in a light industrial environment. Although the principles can be adapted to almost any other situation. After you have read this piece, you should have a better understanding of how stakeholders, planning horizons, goals and challenges affect the plan. An Example Let’s imagine that we are … Read more

By calculating both burden and overhead rates, organizations gain a complete picture of the full cost of employing individuals in various roles, enabling better budgeting and financial planning. Employee Burden Rate The employee burden rate is the added costs an employer incurs beyond an employee’s base salary or hourly wage. These costs include benefits, payroll … Read more

Figuring out how much capacity a project manager needs for a project is difficult. Leadership tasks are hard to measure, making it hard to predict their workload accurately. Of course, every estimate involves some guessing. But it should be based on clear factors tied to the nature of the project. In this article, I’ll share … Read more

Delivering a project within a fixed budget is not easy. A burndown chart helps you see if you’re staying within the allocated hours or not. But how do you make a burndown chart? That’s what you’ll learn in this article. We’ll walk you through the steps, provide the exact formulas needed, and share a ready-to-use … Read more

The FTE method is a way to size a project team. It ensures that each team member is fully occupied with productive tasks. Project managers do this by ensuring their daily workload is as close as possible to the full-time equivalent (FTE) of eight hours a day. This doesn’t mean each team member is expected … Read more

You’ve done your initial research and scoping. How do you develop a capacity plan for your agile project? Agile frameworks are great because of their flexibility, reducing the need for upfront planning. But we live in the real world and still need to align our scope with the team’s capacity. In this article, we’ll walk … Read more