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Identifying bottleneck resources across projects

Identifying bottleneck resources across projects

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Identifying bottleneck resources across projects

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- We need to know which of the resources is the bottleneck, which resource is going to limit the speed of your project. We've already seen that you might choose your own department as the resource to focus on, just to check that you can keep to your part of the plan. Or you might know that say a laboratory is the scarcest resource that all of the projects need to be planned around. In fact, you probably already know what the bottleneck resource is for your area of work, because that's where all the hassle always is. That's where the overtime is worked, where the lateness happens, where the pressure is always being applied. But what if you aren't sure what the bottleneck resource is? How can you know that you've correctly identified it? The first way is to add up all of the resources needed for all of the projects. You would use a spreadsheet for this, with the projects all listed down the side and the resource groups listed…

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