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Capacity Management Template

Version 6 of this innovative On-Fire tool is now available. To obtain a demo version, click the resources tab.

White paper:

Open Source and Agile Development; Combining methodologies for maximum impact.

Driving strategic alignment using context as an alignment proxy.

Other Free software downloads

Request a free demo download of the new Project Portfolio Prioritization template.

Black Belt Briefs

Thought leadership and best practices "briefs" for busy people. Index of topics.

Portfolio Management Systems

An On-fire White Paper

Focusing on Microsoft's Enterprise Portfolio Management suite (EPM), this free On-Fire report offers unvarnished commentary on the challenges of harnessing EPM's features along with that of its dozen market competitors.

Commercial PPM systems are clearly targeted at large enterprises where contention over shared resources has been difficult to manage. These systems are ideally suited for "command and control" management styles. They are less suited in decentralized environments dependent on the ability of knowledge teams to shape a rapid business response.

Commercial PPM systems contrast considerably with On-Fire's Project Capacity Management tools. They are likely to need customizations and require considerable training.

On-Fire's tools are simpler to learn, Excel-based, focused on a more limited set of management challenges and targeted to more agile, distributed organizations.

Download a free copy of this white paper.

Project Capacity Management

Overloaded development?

Overloaded development teams rarely deliver high performance. Over-committed development teams are a rampant problem according to most industry surveys.

Too many active projects?

Metrics for development team utilization are not well understood nor used in portfolio decision support. The Capacity Management Template's (CMT) elegant visualizations corrects this.

Wrong Project Priorities ?

Portfolio priorities should be based on weighted objective and subjective criteria. Unemotional decisions require a scoring and visualization toolset like On-Fire's Portfolio Valuation Template (PVT).

Find out how on-time delivery and productivity improves with On-Fire's CMT and PVT tools. Request a free demo version of the template.

On-Fire Sponsorship

Engineering Executive Forum, an invitation only peer group of technology executives. External link.

Customer testimonial

"On-Fire's capacity management technology proved that our organization badly over-drove the development resources. This chronic condition masked poor individual performance that contributed to schedule slippage and poor productivity. With On-Fire's help, we were able to identify and solve both problems."

David Duehren, CTO, Brooktrout Technology