Strategic Staffing: A Comprehensive System for Effective Workforce Planning, Second Edition

Project-Based Staffing

Sometimes you need to know the total number of staff of a particular type that will be needed (e.g., a particular category of engineers), but the information that is available defines the required staffing on a project-by-project basis (the number of engineers that are needed for a given engagement). Often this staffing information is defined in project proposals or plans. Complicating the issue further is the fact that the projects start and finish at different times.

The project-based staffing technique simply aggregates the required staffing for each job group for each project, at a particular point in time, across all projects to determine overall staffing requirements. There are two approaches, the zero-based approach ...