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Capacity Planning Blogs

Determining the human resources required to realize value from strategic software development initiatives.
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Up Your Game - 7 Capabilities for Better Software Project and Portfolio Management
Compare PPM software capabilities to QSM's SLIM-Suite capabilities to show how they can work together to improve an organization's ability to execute their programs and reduce risk.
QSM Webinar
Webinar Replay: Cost Optimization Best Practices for Software and IT Budgeting

In this webinar, Keith Ciocco explains some of the best practices that QSM uses to improve their effectiveness in planning project and portfolio budgets.
Agile Development Process Implementation
Estimating Program Increment Capacity in Scaled Agile (SAFe)

QSM’s empirically based estimation method matches capacity with demand in your Scaled Agile release train planning in a way that reduces uncertainty and risk.

Software Project Staffing
Getting Staffing Right is the Key to Software Development Nirvana

How do you determine the appropriate staffing levels for your software development project? Try an early estimation and predictive analysis approach.

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Three Strategies for Successful 2017 Project Portfolio Planning

Lawrence Putnam Jr shares 3 strategies business stakeholders & IT managers need for annual project portfolio planning.
How Can We Make Annual IT Budgeting Easier?

Keith Ciocco shows how to use top-down resource demand management for effective IT budgeting.
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Webinar Replay: Top Down Resource Demand - The Missing Ingredient in Resource Capacity Planning

PPM software has many of the ingredients you need to meet that challenge, but a key ingredient is missing: credible resource demand for the projects you plan to do.