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Who Should Own the Resource Management Process?
Who should own the resource management process? Learn how PMOs and leaders can align demand, capacity, and priorities for feasible delivery.

Jerry Manas
3 days ago7 min read


Adaptive Alignment: Coordinating Across the Organization When Everything Is Changing
Most organizations don’t suffer from a lack of change. They suffer from a lack of coordinated change. Strategies shift. Markets wobble. New technologies appear. Customers, vendors, and regulators all bring new demands. Internally, staff changes and restructurings keep the ground moving under everyone’s feet. The question isn’t whether things will change. It’s whether the organization can respond in a way that’s adaptive and cohesive. Alignment is the fourth and final element

Jerry Manas
Aug 67 min read


The 3 Levers of Resource Optimization: Turning Capacity Into Value
Resource optimization isn’t about being busy — it’s about producing value. Learn the 3 levers of resource optimization: staffing strategy, portfolio planning, and productivity & engagement.

Jerry Manas
Aug 44 min read


The 3 Pillars of Project Prioritization
Project prioritization is a governance conversation, not a magic calculator. This article shows how to use three lenses (strategic alignment, scoring, and categorization) plus priority bands and “above the line” decisions to focus scarce capacity on the work that truly matters.

Jerry Manas
Jul 284 min read


What’s in Your Bucket? Balancing Demand and Capacity
Most organizations think they have a capacity problem, but their bucket was never empty. This post uses a clear‑bucket metaphor to show where time really goes—operations, firefighting, planned work, admin—and why visibility into all demand is the first step to balancing demand and capacity.

Jerry Manas
Jul 153 min read


Predictive AI in Resource Management: Powerful Co Pilot or “Resource Leveling with Better Marketing”?
In a recent post, I wrote about how to “do more with less” by making smarter choices about work and capacity. There’s another dimension to that conversation now: a wave of tools promising to use predictive AI to optimize portfolios and resources. If you work in a PMO, RMO, or COO role, you’ve been under pressure to squeeze more value from limited capacity for decades. Economic pressure and staffing shortages have simply turned up the volume. And lately, whenever leaders look

Jerry Manas
Apr 98 min read


4 Imperatives of a Value-Driven PMO
Jerry Manas shares the four areas every PMO should be concerned with.

Jerry Manas
Feb 23, 20242 min read


The Case Against Time Tracking
Despite the fact that it often takes just a couple minutes once a week, time tracking is an ongoing subject of contraversy.

Jerry Manas
Jan 26, 20244 min read
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