You are in the right place if an increase in output would help, but you need to control costs
- Important due dates get overlooked, mistaken for artificial due dates
- Our people complain about others manipulating the priority sequence, using artificial dates, for their own benefit
- Our customers, or stakeholders, complain about our lead times and the fact that we ‘haven’t even started yet,’ or we have made no progress since last time we were asked
- We often have to wait a long time for resources to become available when the project needs them
- Decision-makers find it hard to plan and predict the completion of work
- We are busy, yet our output is quite variable
- Our due-date performance keeps getting compromised
With Resolve Scheduling Contentions, you will:
- Determine what dates we will schedule and dates we will not schedule, and apply these rules. Create and apply release rules for staggering projects
- Create a near-term job schedule, renegotiating dates as necessary to match the scheduling rules, plan resourcing changes to resolve due date conflicts during the transition from the old to the new schedule
- Alter workflow practices to follow the schedule, and call for supervisor intervention and direction when blocked; any temptation to work on out-of-sequence jobs is removed
- Adjust the planned release sequence to maximise efficiency at the constraint without increasing due date violations
With Resolve Scheduling Contentions, you will ensure that any side effects of the change will be worth it!
While implementing Resolve Scheduling Contentions, you will address the following common concerns people have. For example:
- The due dates we have promised our clients are predicted to cause resource overloads
- As jobs enter the near-term window they compel us to resequence other jobs within that window
- It is often hard to improve the efficiency of the next schedule without degrading the efficiency of the following schedule
Let’s get started!