Project Resource Planner
Drag-and-drop planner for allocating team resources to projects
About this tool
Let’s say you’re running a large engineering organisation, and you’re trying to figure out the best way to allocate people to projects across multiple reporting lines. You’re moving people around, teams are changing, and having a visual representation helps a lot to see where people are.
This tool came about from a terrible sketch that I threw into Claude.ai with the following prompt:
Help me create an editable version of this image that I can manipulate and add/change/edit. The vertical boxes are expertise (iOS, android, web), and horizontal boxes are workstreams / projects. At the top are EMs and UTLs, and alongside each workstreams is PM/Design. TLs are scattered through each.
The result was servicable, and several rounds of additional clarifications led to this tool that I used to help plan a team reorganisation. It wasn’t too long ago that actual companies were built around selling products like this.
Features
- Define your engineering teams with managers and uber-TLs leading them
- List out projects or workstreams to distribute team members across
- Drag and drop workstreams or people chips
- Save / load different plans to your browser local storage
- Export and import a JSON version of the data for a more permanent copy