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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
Aug 117 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


How to Do More with Less – And Achieve Higher Value
“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.

Jerry Manas
Apr 55 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


Mastering Organizational Change: 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 10
The tenth and final post in the series on 50 Common Sense Tips for Mastering Organization Change!

Jerry Manas
Jan 30, 20243 min read


Mastering Organizational Change: 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 9
Here’s the ninth post in our ten-post series on 50 Common Sense Tips for Mastering Organization Change.

Jerry Manas
Jan 30, 20243 min read


Mastering Organizational Change: 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 8
50 Common Sense Tips for Mastering Organization Change. These tips hold true whether you’re implementing a new process or transition

Jerry Manas
Jan 30, 20243 min read


Mastering Organizational Change: 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 7
Whether you’re implementing a new process, software rollout, or transitional culture change, these tools will round out your change toolbox.

Jerry Manas
Jan 30, 20243 min read


Mastering Organizational Change: 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 6
We continue this sixth installment in a series of ten posts on 50 common sense tips on mastering organizational change.

Jerry Manas
Jan 30, 20243 min read


Mastering Organizational Change – 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 5
This is the fifth in a series of ten posts on 50 common sense tips on mastering organizational change.

Jerry Manas
Jan 30, 20243 min read


Mastering Organizational Change: 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 4
This is the fourth in a series of ten posts on 50 common sense tips on mastering organizational change.

Jerry Manas
Jan 30, 20243 min read


Mastering Organizational Change: 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 3
This is the third in a series of ten posts on 50 common sense tips on mastering organizational change.

Jerry Manas
Jan 30, 20243 min read


Mastering Organizational Change: 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 2
This is the second in series of ten posts on 50 common sense tips on mastering organizational change.

Jerry Manas
Jan 30, 20243 min read


Mastering Organizational Change: 50 Common Sense Tips – Part 1
Here are the first five tools in the toolbox for planning any kind of software or process implementation

Jerry Manas
Jan 30, 20243 min read


A Leadership Lesson from Game of Thrones
One of the most important lessons for leaders, project managers, and executives is to understand and appreciate what they don’t know

Jerry Manas
Jan 29, 20243 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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