Human resource allocation in a multi-project R&D environment

摘要

In their strive for more effective usage of scarce resources R&D organisations tend to seek the solution in forecasting in more spliced tasks and by allocating the most skilled person for such a small task. To get this done the aid of sophisticated project management software is evaluated on the possibilities of coupling these fine day-to-day tasks to the project portfolio plan as pre- sented in the business plan. During the study by the authors of this article on how to optimise an existing resource allocation process in a large R&D organisation it was found that a break- through in the allocation method could be made by introducing two indicators: namely, the pro- ject scatter factor and the resource dedication profile. By giving attention to these indicators the resource allocation process was significantly simplified and, the most important, better project and business results were made.