Zwei Welten
Two worlds - one system
Project managers and line managers act in a protected yet integral manner
Project and project portfolio management
In project portfolio management, the central question is how the planning of individual projects should interact with the management of the entire project portfolio.
While theorists dream of the total integration of these two levels, Scheuring developed the concept of two worlds back in the 1990s, which has since been tried and tested hundreds of times in practice. It is the clear answer to this question.
The approach clearly distinguishes between the needs of project managers and those of project portfolio management. This applies in particular to resource planning, in which all projects, but also all other tasks, must be taken into account.
The principle
In the concept of two worlds, an interface is created between project portfolio management and resource planning on the one hand and detailed project planning on the other.
While project planning is broken down to the level of activities (classic project management) or tasks (agile), resource planning takes place at a rough level of the project structure - such as phases or releases.
Line managers and project managers retain the independence that enables them to work in a targeted manner. The coordination of project planning and higher-level resource planning remains primarily a communicative task between these two stakeholders.
resSolution relies on “soft integration”
However, the distinction between the two worlds does not rule out intelligent connections between them.
With soft integration, resSolution only loosely couples the two levels with each other. If project managers change their project planning, the higher-level resource planning is not destroyed. However, project portfolio management and project planning take place in the immediate “neighborhood”.
This solution provides a maximum of relevant information and
optimally supports coordination between line managers and project managers. An exclusivity of resSolution.
