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title: 100% of projects completed with 50% fewer resources
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An engineering services contractor for the US Department of Defense had recently implemented Playbook methods and software to help meet critical project schedules when an unexpected 50% reduction in workforce occurred…

> "My team is empowered. Their day is less confusing. They do their own planning. They are ‘tickled pink’."
> 
>                                                             –Sr. Program Manager

 

With only nine months left to finish their projects, they depended on Playbook to keep the priorities sorted and were able to finish their existing projects on time with only half of the originally planned people.

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