Keyla IlievskiResearch Article SummaryWeek 5 State of the Industry: The Critical Role
Keyla IlievskiResearch Article SummaryWeek 5
State of the Industry: The Critical Role of Resource Utilization
JODY KOCH · FEBRUARY 3, 2020 · UPDATED FEBRUARY 22, 2022
As mentioned on this article the resources utilization for a project is a very demanding and it is very important when it comes to project management and have a successful project.
They are many challenges mention by Jody Koch, many challenges can arise resource utilization.
The benchmarked of peer-to-peer overall utilization performance can be a great trend that as mentioned in 2080 utilization baseline can benefit on this matter, the Resource Management includes planning, scheduling, and allocating the resources to the right project at the right time and cost. A good Resource Management plan maximizes profitability for the project. The rationale behind the science of Resource Management is to minimize waste and ensure that high priority tasks have the resources they need at the right time.
When measuring the utilization data is become more a good pattern to be able to measure intervals more accurate and address management and deliver per trend 2 by Koch. Koch mentions how is used as a monthly basis and is giving great results so far.
Even with labor costa being high and organizational budgets being affected by this Koch mentions that more work needs to be done in utilization performance and decision making. As Koch mentions I agree with him since more resources need to be involve in projects this included high management.
On trend 4 Koch talks about goals and compensation. Setting organizational goals can sometimes feel like making New Year’s resolutions. The idea seems promising at first, and you have no trouble getting everyone on board, but a few weeks later, those goals are forgotten. It is a good way to approach the utilization but not always can become a positive result. There are many benefits for the resources but there are also disadvantages as mentioned below:
It may have a negative effect on teamwork if employees feel they are competing.
It can distract from team objectives if employees are more focused on their own skills or productivity.
If you don’t manage it well, it can result in too much focus on quantity of work, rather than quality. This, in turn, can lead to employee stress.
Moreover, you risk putting too much focus on objective skills that can be measured by quantifiable metrics. This can result in less focus on subjective but equally valuable skills, such as communication and creativity.
An established performance-based compensation plan can be difficult to change or update. It can also be difficult to end if the program is not giving you the results you expected. This can lead to increased turnover if employees feel cheated out of previously offered bonuses.
If you don’t ensure your managers apply your pay for performance strategy consistently, it can lead to favoritism. It can also highlight potential deficiencies. For example, certain employees might not meet expectations because they do not have sufficient training.
At the end of all project management utilization must be well done and well calibrated in a way that it benefits the project but also the employee. We must be careful when it comes to the project management resource utilization since ideas that might seem to work it can hurt the project in many other ways.
References:
https://project-management.com/state-of-the-industry-the-critical-role-of-resource-utilization/
Organizational Culture, Organizational Project Management, Work Breakdown Structures, Information Technology March 1993PM
should be 5-6 double spaced pages or 1300-1500 words and from the reading i attatched. you do not need to use all of them History Assignment Help Organizational Culture, Organizational Project Management, Work Breakdown Structures, Information Technology March 1993PM NetworkDalal, Jagdish R. | DeSarra, Suzanne M. | McEneany, David M. | Nowak, David M.
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Organizational Culture, Organizational Project Management, Work Breakdown Structures, Information Technology March 1993PM NetworkDalal, Jagdish R. | DeSarra, Suzanne M. | McEneany, David M. | Nowak, David M.
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When Xerox decided to work the Information Systems organizations, Xerox USCO Information Management looks for ways to continuously improve software development and productivity through standardization, simplification, and automation. Improvement has most recently been obtained through the implementation of a single work management process and system across the entire organization.
Xerox Corporation, committed to fundamentally change the way it conducts business, recently created nine self-contained business divisions. Each one is a complete “end-to-end” business with an income statement and balance sheet. The United States Customer Operations (USCO) organization is responsible for support of all activities for the divisions that relate to the customer in the United States. Within this organization, Information Management provides the data and software support to help the business divisions make management-by-fact decisions.
Fundamentally, process standardization describes the establishment of a set of rules governing how people in an organization are supposed to complete a given task or sequence of tasks.
The benefits of standardization
Fundamentally, standardization means that your employees have an established, time-tested process to use.
When done well, standardization can decrease ambiguity and guesswork, guarantee quality, boost productivity, and increase employee morale.
Some benefits of standardization are as follows:
Improves clarity — because a standard process will eliminate the need for guesswork or extra searching
Guarantees quality — because work is done in a pre-defined, optimized way
Promotes productivity — because your employees won’t need to ask around or comb documentation to get answers
Boosts employee morale — because employees can take pride in having mastered the process and refined their skills
Perfects customer service — because every ticket is handled in the best possible way
Reference:
Dalal, J. R., DeSarra, S. M., McEneany, D. M., & Nowak, D. M. (1993). Improving project delivery and resource utilization. PM Network, 7(3), 10–15.https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/improving-project-delivery-resource-utilization-3732
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The show and episode discussed throughout this essay are Grey’s Anatomy Season 15, episode 19.
This episode explicitly follows the point of view of Dr. Jo Wilson. During this episode, she addresses her childhood trauma of her mother abandoning her at a fire station when she was a baby. During this episode, she was informed that she was a product of rape and looked like her mother’s rapist. She struggled mentally through trying to process this information and was isolating herself from work and her husband.
While Dr. Wilson was at work in the hospital, she found a patient that was lost on their way to the Emergency Room. The patient was clearly in distress and had physical trauma. Dr. Wilson escorts her to the ER and establishes rapport with the patient. The patient, Abby, tells Dr. Wilson that her injuries are from a cabinet and other ‘clumsy’ mistakes. However, she would panic when Dr. Wilson would leave the room, reaching out for her hand. Abby starts feeling comfortable around Dr. Wilson and begins to show her all her injuries which were strangulation marks and physical trauma to her abdomen. After running multiple tests and scans, the damage is more than expected. At this time, during the evaluations of the scans, Dr. Teddy Altman, a Trauma surgeon and Army Veteran, look at the scans and can see that this is damage from sexual assault. After speaking with Dr. Altman, Abby is still hesitant to open up, but Dr. Altman and Dr. Wilson walk her through the process and talk her through the stigma of sexual assault. Abby has concerns about how she will be viewed and flirting with a man while she is married and her husband is out of town. After talking to Dr. Wilson and Dr. Altman, she agreed to a Rape-Kit. During the procedure, she speaks about the event and is supported by each doctor.
As the surgery was required to save her life Abby confessed that she was scared to close her eyes or be around men because when she did, she imagined the man that assaulted her. When this was acknowledged, Dr. Wilson planned for an all-female surgical team, and on the way to the Operating Room, she had female employees line the hallways to support strength in women.
Diversity in episode
There was a lot of diversity in the episode, the show of cast members, and gender. The patient that was assaulted and undergoing emergency care was a black female. The case doctors are all women with different backgrounds and cultures. Dr. Dahlia, the intern of the team, is Muslim, Dr. Wilson came from a low-income background and was homeless for most of her childhood, and Dr. Altman a former Army Major who is also Bi-sexual. I think having diverse cast members was necessary because although they have certain privileges, there are also privileges that they do not. Due to the focus on this episode, there were fewer males present. The presence of males was Dr. Wilson’s husband and other medical professionals in the hospital who were not involved in the case.
This made me reference the week one reading when talking about the diversity of women. I think that understanding all the terminology and what diversity is and what it looks like was necessary for recognizing the diversity of this episode based on ethnicity, gender, and even religion. (Kang, Et. Al, 2017)
Personal opinions and viewpoints
I do identify with some of the characters in this episode, and unfortunately, it is not in a positive way. I relate to Dr. Altman with her sexuality and her experience in the military. I relate with Dr. Wilson coming from a low-income family and being homeless at specific points in my childhood. Unfortunately, I identify with Abby as a victim of sexual assault (reported.). Certain other aspects I can identify with is a white female in the medical field. I loved this episode and am not ashamed to admit that I cried. Working in the mental health field, I encounter trauma related to sexual assault with my patients. Many of these patients request female providers because they don’t feel comfortable with males. With this setting being in the medical field, I relate this episode to some of the experiences not only in my personal life but also in my work life.
Conclusion
This episode shines a light on diversity; however, if you do not have previous knowledge of the characters, it may not seem that way, especially if you are only taking in the current episode and not each character’s background. I recommend this episode to many interested in seeing movement and positivity in the medical field with the trigger warning of sexual assault. The single story you can say that is recognized in this would be the way women view reporting sexual assault reporting. Instead of being able to view it simply as fighting against something wrong, women regard it as victim blaming and that they could have done more. (Aidichie,2009).
References
Kang, M., Lessard, D., & Heston, L. (2017a). Identity Terms. Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies. http://openbooks.library.umass.edu/introwgss/chapter/identity-terms/
Aidichie, C.N. (2009). The danger of a single story [Video]. TEDGlobal.
https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story
Week 3 ArticleKeyla M. Ilievski9/18/2022 Resource management alternative and supplementary systems In
Week 3 ArticleKeyla M. Ilievski9/18/2022
Resource management alternative and supplementary systems
In this article, Harvey talks about their model project environment, they realized that they need to do critical path scheduling and adjust the schedules for resource limitations. The critical parts of set up the software is important since is crucial it needs to cover the items below:
Identify the project work scope
Organize the identified work (outlines and work breakdown structures)
Schedule the work
Identify available resources
Assign resources to the work
Evaluate and adjust the schedule and resource assignments
Analyze and report schedule and resource information, oriented by project and by resource structures.
Using those key elements for the software will provide all the important structures to be able to set up their software and be able to become successful in the project utilization.
The time keeping software ia a great tool to have for their company. As a leader, project managers are expected to ensure that the work gets done within the stipulated timeline. As such, they have to keep track of the project progress at every point in time. Time tracking helps project managers achieve their goals without micro-management in multiple ways. Time tracking helps in estimating the time required for each activity. Consolidating this data over a period of time enables decision-makers to efficiently manage resources in the projects. This also facilitates them to use these insights in future projects.
Time tracking helps managers monitor the performance of employees without micromanagement. Time tracking software can be used to assign time for each activity which can help managers gauge the efficiency and performance of the resources in a way that they can track the time each resource is taking to carry out an activity.
Time tracking reports help managers to do an efficient estimation of project timelines and resources required. This enables them to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
References:
Levine, H. A. (1994). Resource management: alternative and supplementary systems. PM Network, 8(10), 44–46.
https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/resource-management-alternative-supplemental-systems-4833