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RESOURCES
PRESENTED BY
Toyin Osunlaja
Gozde Kilinc
And
Ercin Sen
OBJECTIVES
After this presentation you will be able to:
• Understand what resources are, and the types
of resources that are typically available
• Appreciate the importance of managing
project resources, and their effect on the
project duration
• Apply project resource management tools and
techniques for managing project time.
What are Resources?
Resources are commonly thought of as sources
of supply or support, such as money, people,
materials, technology, and space. For
information system projects, more specific
resources may include system developers,
project managers, system analysts,
stakeholders, development environments and
information.
Types of Resources
Resource needs
Managing resources
Resource Estimation Techniques
• One of the primary tools of pj resource
estimating is expert judgement.
• Expert judgement is estimation based on the
experience of one or more experts on the
particular activity or project.
• Another source of hard data is published
estimating data –hard data from specific
activities carried out on previous projects that
may be used to more accurately estimate
resource needs.
Resource Estimation
Techniques(cont.)
• When estimating activity resources, it is
often advisable to conduct some form of
alternatives analysis
• an estimating technicals in which trade ofs
between the time needed the resources
invested and the desired quality of the
final deliverable are examined.
Resource Estimation
Techniques(cont.)
• Also bottom up estimating is a technique
applied when the resource needs of an
activity can not be easily estimated.
• The primary output of the activity resource
estimating process is a detailed listing of
the resource requirements.
Resource Estimation Outputs
• Activity resource requiements is a very
detailed listing of the resource
requirements for the individual activities.
• Resource breakdown structure is a
hierarchical ,graphical representation of all
needed resources ordered by type or
category.
Resource Estimation Outputs(cont.)
• Resource calender is a specific type of
project calender that is used to track the
hours when certain resources are
available.
• Activity duration estimation is the process
of estimating the duration of the project
activities using both project scope and
resource information.
Duration Estimating Techniques
• Analogous estimating is the estimation of
activities’ durations based upon the duration of
similar activities.
• Parametric estimating is the estimation of
activities’ durations using some type of
mathematical process.
• Three- point estimates- are the estimation of
activities’ durations by averaging the
optimistic,pessimistic and most likely estimates .
Reserve Analysis
• Reserve analysis technique used to
establish contingency reserves during a
project to guard against potential risk.
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