Squad Planning

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.

The Right Team working on the right job

Collaboration tools can help teams work together more effectively on financial planning and analysis. This can lead to faster and well-informed decisions, along with improved inter-department communication.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SPRINT and PI Planning

Sprint and PI planning becomes a lot easier. Resources can be grouped taking into account their skills and availability. Teams can also be formed based on the focus of the planning process.