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A new manager comes in, changes are inevitable. Especially when he is a project manager.

It was about a month since we completed the server migration project. The migration was from Europe to Asia and it took 6 months to complete. The idea was to make Asia the technological hub, which was well, the initial idea.

Reporting for Management

I was once tasked to build a Capacity Model. The objective was to have a model to measure the department's resource utilization level. My manager were to use the model to justify to the higher powers of the need to hire more staff.

Sounds like an important task, extra motivation to get it done and done right. I spent the next few weeks working on the model. All along with feedbacks and advice from my manager. After 4 weeks, an oracle-like model was born. After all, it's supposed to tell us how much free time David has on a typical workday and also forecast his workload for the next 12 - 24 months. With this model, better management decisions can be made, such as assigning David more tasks. No more internet gossips for poor David.