TPG PortfolioPlanner: portfolio planning with optimal resource utilization Product Summary: This product allows you to aggregate the resource and budget allocations for potential and ongoing projects on the project level. Each project is shown as a task in a Microsoft Project Gantt chart. Graphical simulations allow manual optimization of resource utilization by simply moving the…

Gartner introduced an interesting concept earlier this year: Mode 1 and Mode 2 planning. Mode 1 planning, as they described it, is the traditional planning approach to projects. Each project is scoped out, estimated, a business case is built, and then approved in some sort of an organizational cadence. When performed annually, this process is…