Managing capacity in project environments

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Philip Marris briefly explains the problems of managing the capacity of an organization in project environments. How long does it take to write a piece of software code or find a new supplier? All the numbers are wrong. So management work on the principle of hydraulic pressure: the more projects I force into the system the more will come out. As a result the organization goes into multitasking madness and very little work gets finished.  Have a look at our website: https://www.marris-consulting.com/en/ Have a look at our online courses: https://e-learning.marris-consulting.com/ Check out our LinkedIn company page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/marris-consulting Subscribe to our newsletter: https://marrisconsulting.substack.com/   Marris Consulting is a management consulting firm.  Our motto: Factories, People & Results.

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00:00i hope that's one of the advantages i have coming from manufacturing right i did 20 years of

00:04manufacturing before i got into projects in manufacturing you have numbers how long does

00:08it take to drill a hole in the piece of steel 17 seconds how long does it take to do

00:12this whatever

00:13so you can calculate capacities right and have an idea of what you're capable of doing in projects

00:18environments you're trying to work out how long it takes to find a supplier how long it takes to

00:23have a good idea and prove a concept how long is it going to take to write some code you

00:26don't have

00:26a clue on any of those numbers right people are making them up so you don't know the workload

00:32and therefore you don't know the capacity of your system right again top management detests that so

00:38they basically in most cases work on hydraulic pressure that's to say that the more projects

00:43they put into the system they think the more is going to come out right they don't have any idea

00:48what the system is capable of they just think let's just push it in push it in push it in

00:53and therefore

00:53there'll be more work for more people and therefore more will come out in fact that kills the system

00:58it all goes mad uh and then people turn into to multitasking craziness and very very little comes

01:05out of the system because they put too much work into the into the thing there's no flow right there's

01:09no flow um so that's that's why um the uh thing uh goes it goes mad and it's made that

01:18much more

01:18impressive in projects compared to manufacturing because as i say there are no numbers and you can

01:23perfectly have people with twice as much capacity as they need they only have four hours of work

01:28every every day in fact in reality if you if you looked at it coldly but their top management is

01:34making sure everybody's busy so they have to fake work or invent work and they end up inventing work

01:40which is then going to work that is then going to increase the workload on somebody else by they

01:44started something too early uh they didn't have anything to do so they started uh producing something

01:49when there was only a draft specification that sort of stuff and the whole thing goes mad completely mad

01:55you

01:59you

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