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Resource Planning in Project Management.

Resources can be time money people and equipment

Planning our resources helps ensure that people are not overloaded with work and the time is
spent well and the budget is allocated as intelligently as possible
How do you answer questions like how many additional resources would be required for the
new project, are there any how are you doing skill graphic designers available in the next two
weeks to complete or join the project, is anyone overloaded with to much work
If resources or not handled correctly the following unfortunate events can occur:

All would people with too much work

Project by George skin spider out of control
You project may suffer timeline delays
It may have a domino effect on other projects in the organization

Things you need to know before you start planning our resources:

Need to know what is the planning process for the other projects- you need to have defined
activities for all of your ongoing projects ; define timelines: estimated hours: progress;

Consider a holiday vacations and personal schedules been planning for the resources

I signed the best available team member based on the skills required for the particular task with
the time duration and consideration

video: Resource Planning for Projects: A Guide - Project Management Training.

Resource - it is a process to identify the resources required to deliver a specific project

Resources are required at a task level of your plan
Resources include equipment finance personal people hardware software etc.

Best practises for resource planning for project management

Plan in advance for project start to ensure that you have all the required tools and resources to
start the project
Get input from your team when you are planning just to make sure you haven’t overlooked
something maybe so you don’t overlook different types of people that you need on the project
or any other type of equipment
other needs that you want to refer your industrial standards to ensure you are meeting all the
requirements of your industries
Continue updating the resource plan throughout your project duration
Sit standards order guide for your project
Use your project management software to have everything in one place short and concise and
to track all the tasks activities and your budget simultaneously for the entire project

AGuide – How to
Step one identify what resources are required
The resources can be divided into two product categories
 equipment – hardware and software tools
Requirement, Industry standards
Purchases are lasers

 Personal/people
The rules that are required next line the experience that the person should have
Specific skills certification or clearances that should be there
Determine if therse are the Employees you already have or contracts directly or get a
third parties on board for the project

Step two : determine when you need them

know if you need the resources only during the project planning phase or do you need them
just for a specific time frame and there’s some resources that you just need through the entire
project and then there are some a swat team you only need maybe during a crisis situation but
you want to be sure that you’ve planned ahead so that you have the required resources at the
time when you need them

Step three negotiate where and how to get them

Determine if they’re internal resources or external or if you’re going to get a third-party to get
the
In some cases there might be an RFP Or a bid that needs to be filled but example in government
work

Video: What is Resource Levelling?

Resource levelling is the process used to resolve resourcing conflicts when insufficient
resources are available and are over-allocated in order to get the work done in time

the principles of resource levelling are about fair and efficient allocation of work

Ways to level the resources:

 Delay the start time
 Extend plan duration
 Remove some task
 Allocate additional resources
 Split tasks up
  Bring task froward – so that they can be done before the crunch. When are the sources
are overallocated
 Assign alternative resources-having export or more skilled labour do the task so that the
time duration is reduced or even in some cases if possible automating the task rather
than manually doing it

Resource smoothing -balancing the peaks and troughs in the demand of each individual
resource
It is largely about managing time constraints on your project with your resources where is
resource levelling is about managing the constraints around those resources

Most of the PMS already have an inboard program to manage the resources however it
might prefer to use a linear responsibility chart to do them manually which may be more
time consuming 04:00

You can do I go to to make resource levelling when you have clearly defined set of skills
that you can allocate to each team members and each team member can have multiple
tasks
You need to have a limited define set of skills that can be allocated
You should be able to defined very clearly what skills are needed for each task next time it
can also be used when there is large number of tasks and large number of resources
involved

Reading:  How to Develop a Resource Management Plan.