Empower Your Cross-functional Team With Resource Management and Scheduling Software

Posted by eResource Scheduler on October 22nd, 2022

In every business, project managers work with different functional teams to meet their project goals and achieve the business outcome within the required timeline. However, working with stakeholders across cross-functional teams is complicated, and as a project manager, you need to plan, allocate, and schedule your resources effectively to maximize productivity while optimizing cost. So to achieve this, you need to leverage smart Resource management and scheduling software like eResource Scheduler to optimize your resource management process.

Cross-functional team:

It is a combination of stakeholders across departments, functional areas, and expertise. Their collaboration brings unique skill sets to the table, which in turn results in delivering business outcomes aligned with a shared goal. For example, you are the project manager of an organization, and you have got a new deal to build a D2C site for your client. To accomplish this, you need software developers, business analysts, and graphic designers. So, would you hire an outside resource or use your own marketing team's graphic designer? So, to get the best outcome with less cost, it is necessary that employees from different functional teams work together towards a shared goal.

The Benefits of Cross-Functional Teams

• Create an Innovation Culture: Diverse resources with diverse skill sets and functionalities bring innovative perspectives and out-of-the-box ideas to improve the end-user experience, processes, and profitability.
• Seamless knowledge-sharing: Cross-functional teams play a major role in encouraging the sharing of knowledge across different teams. Because of efficient knowledge sharing, the team is better equipped to solve the challenges quickly.
• Increased profitability: Project managers utilize internal resources from diverse locations instead of hiring new resources, thereby reducing resource costs and boosting profitability. Also on the other hand, managers can optimize the potential of each resource and leverage their talent, resulting in efficient utilization of the workforce.
• High-performing workforce: Resources get a detailed and comprehensive perspective when looking at a project when they work in cross-functional teams. They can leverage diverse skill sets, innovative mindsets, and out-of-the-box ideas to achieve the best possible solution for a project bottleneck.
  
  

Resource management software to empower cross-functional teams

Resource management is a complicated process, and on top of that, managing cross-functional teams multiplies the challenge. eResource Scheduler is highly configurable and smart Resource management and scheduling software that streamlines the end-to-end process of resource identification, planning, and scheduling, making it easier for project managers to work with cross-functional teams.

Let’s deep dive and understand how eRS enables project managers to work with cross-functional teams to optimize their resource management.

• Efficient resource scheduling with maximum resource utilization The smart, real-time, and intuitive dashboard of resource scheduling software allows managers to have a 360-degree view of resources and then schedule resources based on available capacity without overloading the resources. It helps to avoid over or underutilization of resources, which leads to employee attrition.
• Smart project management: As resource management and resource scheduling get more streamlined, the project managers get real-time 360-degree visibility of resources across all locations and teams. So resources can be scheduled efficiently for multiple projects that are running at the same time, and resources can also get an overview of project timelines and objectives.
• Identifying resource skills and bridging gaps: Resource management and scheduling software enables managers to access a central pool of resources where they can identify the resources (even if the resources are shared across projects) with the required skillsets and also put together a hiring plan by finding the gaps.
• Unified communication platform: As different teams working on the same project need to collaborate and communicate regularly to achieve the desired outcome, resource scheduling software provides a single communication platform for all stakeholders that are scattered across the globe.
• Prioritize project tasks and track them: By using resource scheduling software, cross-functional teams can track and prioritize projecttasks to deliver projects within a timeline. Gantt Charts help to track the timelines of project tasks and enable managers to adjust time-frames accordingly.

In today’s world, cross-functional teams are critical for any business to perform well. Sign up today for eRS to make your end-to-end resource management more efficient and streamlined.