GLMS supports Connect Plans 360 as a Team /SQUAD/ TRIBE Planning Tool
In agile project management, a Tribe or SQUAD is typically composed of a small, cross-functional team of individuals who have the skills and expertise needed to deliver specific outcomes. They work together in a collaborative and iterative manner to deliver incremental value to projects. They are responsible for managing their own work and making decisions collectively. Their focus is on working together, leveraging complimentary skills and expertise to deliver achievable outcomes in a short period of time.
Benefits of Team SQUAD Planning
1. Better resource allocation:
The complexity of assigning individuals can now move to group assignment. Team planning ensures that resources as a team are allocated more efficiently and effectively since each team member has specific skills and expertise that are aligned with the project requirements.
2. The Right Team working on the right job:
One of the key aspects of this approach is to have the right team mix focussing on the project or job. This helps in delivery of the project as the team has been tailored specifically for the type of project that they are working on. This helps them focus on delivering superior outcomes in terms of output and quality.
This reduces the risk of resource wastage and ensures that the project is completed within the allocated timeframe and budget.
3. Improved collaboration:
Since the team usually comprises of resources with complementing skills, resource team planning encourages collaboration and communication among team members, which helps to build stronger relationships and foster a sense of team spirit. This leads to increased productivity, better problem-solving, and higher quality output.
4. Faster project delivery:
Team planning ensures that a dedicated team of experts in their specific areas are working on the project. This ensure that the right person with the required skill can quickly get to appropriate tasks. This reduces the time needed to complete the project. This approach also enables the team to work on multiple aspects of the project simultaneously, resulting in faster project delivery.
5. Increased flexibility:
Resource team planning allows for greater flexibility since the team can be scaled up or down as needed depending on the project requirements. Also multiple squads or teams can be grouped. This ensures that resources are not over or underutilized, and that the project can adapt to changes in requirements or timelines.
6. Higher quality output:
The rate of delivery in terms of output is important. From a project sense the delivery of value in relation to the effort put into delivery of that value will determine the return on investment.
Resource team planning results in higher quality output since each team member has specific expertise that is aligned with the project requirements. This approach also encourages a more focused and collaborative working environment, which leads to better problem-solving and increased innovation.
7. SPRINT and PI Planning:
Sprint and PI planning becomes a lot easier. Resource can be grouped taking into account their skills and availability. Teams can also be formed based on the focus of the planning process.
The planning process becomes that more simple as well as realistic.
ConnectPlans 360 is a project management tool that helps resource managers, manage teams or squads or tribes. It has the functionality of formation of teams:
- Visibility on which team is doing what.
- The ability to allocate teams against project and initiatives.
- Simple interface to setup and formulate teams taking into account which resources are part of which team.
- Resources can also be allocated into teams based on percentage of the time whey will spend in the team.
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