the engineer webcast: five ways to get more engineering time out of your engineers

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Five Ways to Get More Engineering Time Out of Your EngineersBased on the 2016 Resource Management and Capacity Planning Benchmark Study

Carrie T. Nauyalis, Innovation and NPD Solution Evangelist, Planview


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“Are we working on the highest value products to meet our growth objectives and do we have the people to get it done?”




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Everyone views capacity planning as important, some find it difficult




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#1: Visibility into pipeline demand• For lower maturity

companies, 30 to 50%+ of projects were unplanned

• Unplanned projects create delays, lack of confidence

• KEY QUESTION: How are unplanned projects impacting your resource utilization and product launch timelines?




#2: Understand resource capacity

• Only 31% of lower maturity companies consider capacity most or all of the time; 78% of mature companies do

• KEY QUESTION: Do you currently have visibility into resource utilization to even be able to be able to adopt capacity planning as a best practice?




#3: Gain a comprehensive view of resource capacity and pipeline

demand• Mature companies are 52%

more likely to have a full view into capacity and demand

• Extremely difficult with spreadsheets

• KEY QUESTION: Could you improve time-to-market with the use of enterprise software for resource management and capacity planning (PPM)?




#4: Conduct continuous prioritization and planning for greater agility

• 100% of high maturity companies conduct resource planning and 75% do it weekly, monthly or continuously

• KEY QUESTION: What processes does your company have in place to ensure resources are available to execute projects? Is that process efficient and easy?

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#5: Run and analyze what-if scenarios

• 80% of PD leaders at higher maturity organizations are able to respond to innovation opportunities in minutes, hours, or days instead of weeks or months

• KEY QUESTION: Does your organization have the ability to perform what-if analysis to understand the impact of taking on new product ideas?



“We went from needing eight weeks to only two to three days to evaluate capacity to take on new projects. We are very careful to

make sure data is right. Once we feel more comfortable, we could move even faster.”

-Senior Manager, Global CPG Company



Trend: Establishing a Center of Excellence (CoE)

• 48% of high maturity product development organizations have a CoE or PMO compared with only 23% of lower maturity counterparts

• Organizations across maturity spectrum are establishing the function.

“I report to R&D as part of the product development PMO. We’re

responsible for all product launches globally. Our role is

business process improvements, Stage Gate® process, metrics around go-to-market speed, portfolio management, and

resource and capacity planning. “



Risk of Inaction“We need capacity

evaluation to become a more habitual thing as we look at new work coming

into the portfolio. Our Center of Excellence in

global R&D is working to make it consistent – and the

way we do business.”-R&D Project Solution Group Manager, Global Technology

Company



Key Takeaways• Capacity planning is deemed as extremely important• The top 5 pain points indicate the steps to maturity• Continuous planning is a leading practice practiced by 100% of mature companies• Portfolio and resource management software is a key enabler to make the invisible visible• The risk of inaction is expensive; companies are using capacity planning as a competitive differentiator



Next Steps . . .• Assess your organization’s

maturity level• Benchmark with your

peers and competitors• Download and share the

Executive Insight Report and Guidebook

• Learn about the research methodology and demographics

www.planview.com/rmcp/product



Next Steps . . .

• See Planview Enterprise in action via a short video

• Discover how making the switch from spreadsheets to a single source of truth can accelerate time to market

planview.info/Capacity-Planning


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