One of the main reasons agencies and development studios struggle to break the cycle of too much or too little work is because they haven’t considered how poor resource planning leads to confusion, stress, and burnout. Without mastering forecasting basics, this cycle will continue.
Retaining your best people has never been more important. By replacing hustle culture with mission culture, leaders can evolve away from dysfunction.
Don’t burn out your project managers! In place of task-based project planning, digital services companies should implement a duration-based approach. This is when a certain percentage of each role or a person’s time is allotted to client projects. Why? It will help agencies avoid burning out their vital project managers and scale the business.
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