Project Downsizing Approaches

      
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		            		Arthur Rowland, USA
			            
Project Downsizing Approaches

	          		I have recently been tasked to come up with a proposal from the prime contractor (we are subs) that will significantly cut my team's hours.

What is the best way to comply with this request without making my team's resources seem irrelevant?
				      
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						            	Gopalakrishna Bhat
Project Manager, India
												
				                Proposal for Project Downsizing

													You can have two approaches. This is what I do in such situations.

1. Justify the "value add" you team is doing to the project and try to convince the prime contractor.

2. If the contracor has already decided to cut down the hours of your team, you do not have any option other than deploying the excess team members to some other project.
				                
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						            	MATTHEW ZHANG, China
												
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Move the resource to other projects rather than keep the redundant resource, because as project manager you are measured by project payback instead of managing a big number of people :-).
				                
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						            	Carmelo L. Neri
Consultant, Philippines
												
				                Reducing Project Manhours

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						            	T. Stahl, Canada
												
				                Proposal to Cut Team Hours

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						            	Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
												
				                Revisit the RACI Chart

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