Resourcing Projects

Resourcing Projects

1. Abilities

   • technical
     • schedule a project with optimum resources, and compress a project schedule
   • behavioral
     • Selecting the right people
     • Deciding where each person will work

2. perform the technical and behavioral aspects together in a manner that reinforces and complements each aspect

3. Considerations

   • If some of the key people on a project do not have the skills to participate, managers should help them develop those skills
   • Projects always have trade-offs
   • Project managers need to understand resource limitations to prevent overpromising

4. responsibility assignment matrix

   • a matrix that shows all the work packages and the resources assigned for various responsibilities regarding each work package

5. Plan Resource Management

   • the process of identifying resources and required skills for the project

6. resource breakdown structure

   • a grouping of all resources into main categories in level one and populating each main category with resources based on either function or skill level

7. Estimating activity resources

   • a process of assessing all types of resources—people, materials, tools, and equipment

8. staffing management plan

   • a proposal focused on acquiring, developing, and retaining human resources for as long as you need them on the project

9. Crashing

   • speeding up the critical path, often by adding additional resources or employing existing resources for longer hours

10. Resource leveling

    • adjusting the use of resources based on resource availability and the amount of float on activities to accomplish work as soon as possible

11. Fast tracking

    • a method to expedite a project by executing activities at the same time that ordinarily would be done one after the other

12. critical chain method

    • an alternate scheduling technique that modifies project schedule by tak- ing resource constraints into account

13. Timothy Kloppenborg, Contemporary Project Management, 4th edition, CENGAGE Learning