Jerry Manas

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.

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 to project...

“Doing more with less” is only possible if you do more of what matters and less of what doesn’t—which is a resource planning problem, not a heroics problem.