PFMP · Question #729
Your IT company has been successful as it is able to deliver projects on time without the need for rework and within the allocated budget. Your customers have been astonished with the results and…
The correct answer is A. Prepare a model of the current configuration and modify it to determine future capacity. Capacity analysis best practice requires starting with a baseline model of the current state - current staffing levels, systems, workloads, and throughput - and then modifying that model to project whether it can accommodate future demand. This provides a quantitative…
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Your IT company has been successful as it is able to deliver projects on time without the need for rework and within the allocated budget. Your customers have been astonished with the results and are using your company for additional work, plus they have been recommending your company to others. Your company is experiencing tremendous growth and wants to ensure it can take on the new work with existing resources, both people and systems, or whether it will need to use outsourcing. Given its outstanding reputation, your executives wish to avoid the need to outsource. You have been asked to perform a capacity analysis. A best practice is to:
Options
- APrepare a model of the current configuration and modify it to determine future capacity
- BDetermine and document existing assumptions
- CInventory staff members to assess their level of competencies and existing workload
- DUse resource leveling in an enterprise project management information system
How the community answered
(52 responses)- A75% (39)
- B6% (3)
- C15% (8)
- D4% (2)
Explanation
Capacity analysis best practice requires starting with a baseline model of the current state - current staffing levels, systems, workloads, and throughput - and then modifying that model to project whether it can accommodate future demand. This provides a quantitative, scenario-based view of capacity gaps. Documenting assumptions (B) and inventorying staff competencies (C) are inputs to the model but are not the analysis itself. Resource leveling in a PMIS (D) is a scheduling technique, not a capacity analysis methodology. Building and stress-testing a current-state model is the foundational best practice because it enables data-driven forecasting rather than qualitative guesswork.
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