[webproducers] Re: Resourcing the development team

I'd say one big thing that could help would be to involve your tech  
leads or lead developers in your planning.  If you don't have any tech  
leads or tech managers, you probably ought to hire some.

I made the jump from producing to technical management a while ago, so  
I've seen this from both sides. IMO, if you want to get accurate  
numbers in your forecasts, you need to involve the technical  
leadership in your resourcing meetings.

Justin

On May 12, 2009, at 8:20 PM, "Guy & Fil" <gcarpino@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> I manage the digital production group of an ad agency, part of my  
> responsibilities is to manage the resourcing of our small dev team.  
> We have a weekly resource meeting with the producers and map out the  
> week for our dev group (which projects their working on, which day  
> and how many hours). During the hustle and bustle of the week the  
> developers schedule shifts and their finding that the schedule we  
> create the previous Thursday doesn't really represent in most cases  
> an accurate reflection of their week.
>
> Do you know of any resource scheduling tools that can be easily  
> updated and shared or some advice on how to resolve this. At this  
> point I'm contemplating putting up a giant white board in the dev  
> area that the producers can update on the fly.
>
> Help!
>
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