Bonsai guides

Welcome to your one-stop hub for smarter resourcing. Here you’ll find every Bonsai guide dedicated to getting the most out of your people, time and budget—from high-level strategy primers to step-by-step tutorials inside the app. Whether you’re balancing workloads, forecasting capacity, fine-tuning utilization rates or juggling multiple projects at once, each guide breaks complex practices into clear, actionable playbooks you can put to work today.

7 chapters

Resource management

A practical handbook that walks you through the full lifecycle of managing resources day-to-day. Learn the fundamentals and ROI of effective resourcing, discover proven allocation and scheduling tactics, compare leading software options, and pick up tools for spotting burnout, balancing workloads, and driving continuous improvement.

4 chapters

Resource planning

Your roadmap for turning project scope into a rock-solid resource plan. This guide covers the essentials of estimating effort, building a resource breakdown structure, forecasting demand, running “what-if” scenarios, and linking plans seamlessly to live schedules—plus common pitfalls to avoid and ready-to-use templates.

6 chapters

Capacity planning

A detailed playbook for matching future workload with the people, skills, and hours you’ll need. It explains the fundamentals of capacity planning, contrasts it with short-term resource planning, walks you through building multi-scenario capacity models, and covers sprint sizing, buffer strategies, executive dashboards, and industry-specific best practices.

6 chapters

Resource tracking

A step-by-step manual for monitoring resources in real time. It explains key tracking metrics and KPIs, demonstrates live availability boards and loading charts, highlights early burnout signals, and details how to sync time logs, dashboards, and alerts—so you can keep projects, people, and profitability on target.Sources

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