Allocate people across parallel projects

Practice BM-04 in the Business Management group. The basis is public-record, and the row asks for 3 pieces of evidence.

At a glance

Ref: BM-04
Process: Business Management
Basis: public-record
Source: Public abstract, 1.1 Fields of application
Evidence: 3 items
Gaps: 2 common

Evidence to keep

Business ManagementA capacity sheet dated this month
Business ManagementThe priority rule when two projects want the same person
Business ManagementThe record of the last reallocation and why it happened

Questions before you sign

Who is over 100 percent this month?
Who decides priority when projects collide?
What will we stop doing to start the next project?

The practice, in our words

Decide who works on which project and at what share of their time, and record the decision. Parallel projects fail most often on the same three people, not on the method.

What it means in a VSE

Keep a simple capacity sheet: people down the side, projects across the top, percentage in each cell. Review it when a new project is proposed. If the total for a person exceeds 100 percent, the plan is already wrong.

In a firm of 25 people or fewer, allocate people across parallel projects has to earn its time. The test for BM-04 is not whether the team understands it but whether the artefact exists at the end of the project. Shrink the meeting. Shrink the document. Keep the record.

How to evidence it

Attach the artefacts above to the Allocate people across parallel projects row with the project name, the owner and the date. The anchor for BM-04 is A capacity sheet dated this month. A named person must produce it on request.

For BM-04, the reviewer will sample one live decision and ask for The priority rule when two projects want the same person. No artefact, no evidence. A file that depends on one person's mailbox is not a file for allocate people across parallel projects.

What an assessor samples

An assessor reads the allocate people across parallel projects practice, asks for its evidence and tests one project against it. For BM-04, the useful sample is the most recent project that used the practice, not the best one. A reconstruction written for the visit is a finding for BM-04 if the practice cannot be shown to have happened when it mattered.

Common gaps

The same senior engineer promised to every project
Capacity managed in someone's head

What changes from the 2019 report. For BM-04, the business management process is one of the four the public abstract names. The transition work is to give it an owner and a review, not to invent a new committee.

Where the draft fits

The public abstract places allocate people across parallel projects inside one of the four processes the Intermediate profile covers. For BM-04, the draft clause numbering and wording are not public, so this page cites Public abstract, 1.1 Fields of application and does not quote the draft. The basis label for BM-04 says whether the practice is stated in the public record, named as a process in the series, or our reading.

Related practices

Source for this page: Public abstract, 1.1 Fields of application. Open the record and compare it with the BM-04 statement above. Retrieved 2026-10-22.