62. What is the best approach for balancing resources across several projects?
This is an issue that can occur both with large programs and with small projects. In large programs, balancing resources is necessary when staffing is shared among the linked projects that make up the program. However, the most significant issues for projects in a program tend to relate to their linked scoping, so overlapping resources are generally not the biggest issue for programs.
Resource stack-up conflicts are much more common for small projects, usually groups of small projects led by project leaders who staff them by drawing on a pool of common contributors. The only significant connection between these projects will be their shared resources; they are otherwise ...
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