Introduction to Resource Management and Capacity Planning

What you'll learn
Understand resource and capacity planning and why they are relevant
Learn how to use the Gantt chart to visualize your project plan
Learn how to analyze, adjust, and manage resources for individual and multiple projects
Understand how agile methods for resource planning differ from other methods
Requirements
No previous experience necessary, we will teach you everything from the beginning
Description
This course is a continuation and supplement to the course "Become a Results Driven Project Manager" from OpExecs Academy. In this course, you will learn the importance of resource and capacity planning and why you should develop a resource management approach to your projects. You will discover the different levels of resource planning and how to use specific tools to help manage your project plans. You will also learn how to utilize the Gantt chart to balance your project plan against your current resources to ensure that your organization has the capacity to execute. You will discover how to calculate the critical path and identify tasks that have a large time requirement to estimate the additional cost above the manhours of time required to execute the project. Additionally, you will learn how to deploy the Gantt of Gantts and stacked area chart to look at all of the projects within the organization to better plan resource hours and even the load of multiple projects across the organization. Once you grasp the traditional methods for resource planning, you will discover how agile methods for resource planning differ from traditional methods. This will allow you to recognize the environment where an agile methodology would be a good fit for the project and allow you to use these approaches to plan resources, generate timely results, and give your team a competitive edge.
Following this training you will be able to
Understand the importance of resource and capacity planning
Recognize why you should develop a resource management approach to your projects
Identify the different levels of resource planning
Understand why you need a project plan
Identify milestones and possible project phases
Create a Gantt chart to manage individual projects along with multiple projects
Calculate the critical path for a project
Estimate the additional costs required to execute your project
Use the Gantt of Gantts and stacked area chart to manage multiple projects within an organization
Analyze and document gaps
Take steps as required to adjust your project plan
Understand and apply the four principles of the Agile manifesto
Recognize the specific agile methodology called scrum and how it changes the way you conduct resource planning
Define the roles, artifacts, and types of ceremonies held using the scrum methodology
Plan and select the scope for a sprint using the resource assessment tools that an agile team might use
Determine the environment where an agile methodology would be a good fit for the project
Use Microsoft Planner with Microsoft Teams to plan and collaborate on tasks
Who this course is for
Individuals who want to become more effective project managers, leaders and strategic thinkers.
Homepage

https://www.udemy.com/course/introduction-to-resource-management-and-capacity-planning/

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