
51Chapter three: Tracking projects by investment value
As projects get closer and closer to completion, we need to invest less
and less in order to pocket their value. This should suggest that projects
which are nearing completion should usually have top priority for needed
resources. However, in my experience, precisely the opposite is the case,
especially when the project is being performed by a contractor. All too
often, the emphasis switches to “migrating” the resources to new projects.
This is especially true in organizations where one of the metrics being
used to judge the performance of functional managers is utilization rate,
that is ...