We will start your project later in order to deliver earlier!

This counter intuitive title is not a paradox. If your most loaded people have to play a role in an extra project, all projects can delay. First of all because the waiting times go up and secondly because this extra project causes bad multi tasking. People have to divide their attention to more subjects.

Let me give a short example of an experience.

A client (R&D department) of us wanted to improve the due date performance. We did an analysis with our software FLOW MPM and the conclusion was the following:

• The most loaded resource group assumed a capacity of 4 man-hours per hour (5 men). 
• FLOW* calculated a workload of 11 man-hours per hour. Way too much. 
• And the output* of this group was 2.3 man-hours per hour, 

The output is the actual capacity in this circumstance. By reducing the load to 6 man-hours per hour, the output went up automatically to 4.7 man-hours per hour. Why? Because the people in this group were able to focus on less projects.

End result. The lead-time dropped more than 70% and the finished projects doubled.

* coming from the tool FLOW MPM