Staffing & Cross Staffing
This RM process helps balance workloads and optimize utilization across teams while keeping practitioners engaged while not on project.
What is cross-staffing?
Provides visibility into practitioners’ current assignments and upcoming availability in the next 12 weeks.
What is the Availability report?
A Self-Serve Scheduling tool and the only source for the RM and leaders to know practitioner availability for staffing.
What is STAFFIT
The process of ensuring the right talent pools are considered for client delivery, to maintain margins and better manage project financials.
What is Extended Delivery resource planning?
We're supporting the business with the "matching magic", a trusted advisor and staffing partner.
Who is a Resource Manager OR
What is resource Management?
The idea is, you want to arrange what you need, when you need it, with the minimum of fuss i.e. consolidating all information regarding resources in a shared place.
As an RM, how can you respond to cross staffing needs swiftly?
Displays the number & % of scheduled resume and skills compliance for the last two weeks
What is the Practitioner compliance report ?
Being able to identify when your resources are being utilized and when they’re available will allow you to maximize their productivity.
Why is it important to maintain accurate and reliable resource availability forecasts?
An end-to-end solution for sourcing, hiring and paying subcontractors. Created by Deloitte Executives and powered by a web-based solution, Curasion.
What is Deloitte Open Talent “DOT”
Being aware of every individual's skills, capabilities, and preferences to assign them to work that feels meaningful.
How can you maximize resource optimization
Understanding the reasons behind request cancellations, resource extensions, and reducing the time needed to staff projects can help improve this.
As an RM, how do you improve service delivery and customer satisfaction.
If a PR has 8hrs of Holiday time scheduled and 8hrs of project billable time, this program will delete the billable hours and keep the holiday time.
What is the Double-booking program?
A generative AI tool designed for tasks such as creating, rewriting, and reading text, as well as working with images and workflows.
What is Productive?
3rd party Cloud Vendor Management System Deloitte utilizes to on-board, pay and off-board independent contractors and subcontractors. Contractors enter their time and expenses into this system.
What is Flextrack?
The resource manager can look at who has that skill set. Who has a skill set that is adjacent to it? And how can you match the current resource pool to either be upskilled or reskilled to meet the demand for that skill set.
What is redeployment?
Working closely with practitioners to understand their schedules, profiles, preferences, resumes and key skills can enable staffing on sales and pursuit opportunities, thought leadership engagements, internal operations, or strategic initiatives.
How can an RM keep their bench productive?
Provides insight into the reasoning behind discrepancies between practitioners’ forecasted and actual hours.
What is the variance survey?
An online tool that allows practitioners to create, review and approve an Interfirm Agreement (IFA) or an IFA Change Order (C/O) with a Member Firm quickly and collaboratively.
What is IFA Connect?
Form required for all contractor extensions and new hires to capture engagement details, cost rate, billing rate and margin threshold information.
What is the portfolio approval form?
The ideal RM embraces the operational, tactical and strategic nature of their role. Harnessing each of these elements elevates an RM’s role from purely operational – to one which adds tremendous value to Deloitte’s overarching business goals.
What is RM Advisory
Myth: Only practitioners with previous project experience can be cross-staffed.
Cross-staffing can also provide growth opportunities for practitioners with adjacent or developing skills.
Resource management is mostly about following up on SWIFT delinquencies & scheduling people’s time in STAFFIT
It’s about optimizing capacity, balancing workloads, aligning resources to strategic priorities while considering practitioner preferences – not just scheduling
Myth: If someone has availability, they’re automatically the right fit for a project.
Skills, experience, role alignment matter just as much as availability