"Overloaded Resources"

Overloaded Resources Student: Professor: Course title: Date: Overloaded Resources Resource overloading occurs when more tasks are assigned than the available resources can handle, or can reasonably complete within a normal period (Dye, 2002). In my company, the personnel working on a specific project have been overloaded. In my opinion, resources become overloaded because of the following major reasons. First is due to multiple projects in a company and the resources become overloaded with tasks of various projects, as the project managers strive to finish the projects within schedule and budget. Secondly is when project managers have been encouraged to attain unreasonable expectations. Because of this, they then push their resource allocation beyond the achievable limits to meet constrained budgets and schedules. Another reason for reason overloading is the lack of a comprehensive resource planning prior to the start of the project. Rap and Levin (2006) stated that resource overloading exerts unreasonable pressure on resources, and can be expensive not only in ove...