A QUICK INFORMATION GUIDE

CASE TOOLS:
Matrices,
Hierarchy,
Process Modeling
Relationship Framework

Definition and function in project

management.
CASE tools (Computer-
Aided Software Engineering
tools) are software
applications designed to
support various aspects of
the project lifecycle.
 Efficiency Communication Reduced Risks Decision Making

Streamlined
Real-time Data-driven reports
workflows, Risk identification
communication tools allow project
automated tasks, and and mitigation tools
and shared managers to make
centralized help proactively
information foster informed decisions
communication lead address potential
better collaboration based on
to a more efficient problems.
and transparency. performance metrics.
project team.

ADVANTAGES OF CASE
MATRICES
A tabular format, essentially a table with rows and
columns, used to represent relationships between
different project elements.

• Resource Allocation Matrix (RAM)

• Risk Assessment Matrix (RAM)
• Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RACI)
Resource Allocation Matrix
(RAM)
illustrates how resources (people, equipment, materials) are
allocated to different project tasks.

LABOR Materials Money

Taking advantage of the talents,
qualifications and professional
experience of employees and delegating
tasks and positions that match employee
skill level.
The resource of materials involves any Part of resource allocation involves
physical supplies that help a company assigning budgets and funds to different
generate outputs or products or facilitate business departments to complete project
services. phases.
 IMPACT / SEVERITY
Insignificant Moderate Catastrophic

Very likely
Risk Assessment Matrix
LOW -

PROBABILITY / LIKELIHOOOD
MEDIUM HIGH
MEDIUM

(RAM)

Possible
MEDIUM -
LOW MEDIUM
identifies potential project risks, assessing their likelihood HIGH

and potential impact on the project.

Very Unlikely
LOW LOW - MEDIUM
MEDIUM

IMPACT OR SEVERITY PROBABILITY OR LIKELIHOOD

In categorizing and analyzing the potential risk in project Part of resource allocation involves assigning budgets and
management, the impact or severity is the amount of damages funds to different business departments to complete project
that the risk can do in the project. phases.
Responsibility TASK/
PERSON
LABORER SITE ENGR. OWNER

Assignment Matrix SPECIFIC

(RACI) R A&C I
CONSTRUCTION
WORKS

Clarifies roles and responsibilities for project tasks, Site Inspection I R, A, & C I

indicating who is Responsible, Accountable,

Consulted, and Informed for each task. Bills and
I A&C R
Payments

RESPONSIBLE ACCOUNTABLE CONSULTED INFORMED

A person in charge of A person that delegates the Provides input based A person that is required to be
preparing and executing the work an is responsible for recommendations regarding informed by work but is not
work checking and inspecting after the impact of the work in the necessarily involved in the
completing the work overall project. execution of the work.
HIERARCHY
a way of organizing project elements into a
structured order, based on importance,
complexity, or some other relevant criteria.

• Organizational Hierarchy
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Organizational
Hierarchy
represents the reporting structure
within a team or organization,
showing who reports to whom.

LOWER LEVEL
MIDDLE LEVEL
TOP LEVEL MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
TOP LEVEL

Functions of Top Level Management:

• Make decisions affecting the entirety

of the firm.

• Set goals for the organization and

direct the company to achieve them.

• Responsible for the organization’s

performance, and often, these
managers have obvious jobs.
 Functions of Middle Level Management:

• Carrying out the goals set by top

management by setting goals for their
departments.

• Control, motivate and assist first-line

managers in achieving business
objectives.
MIDDLE
LEVEL • Communicate upward by offering
suggestions and feedback to top
managers to help improve the
organization’s bottom line.
 Functions of Low Level
Management:

• Responsible for the daily

management of line workers—
the employees who produce the
product or offer the service.

• Interacts with workers daily

LOW LEVEL
Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS)
organizes project deliverables into
smaller, more manageable
components, subdivided from high-
level goals down to specific tasks.
GANTT CHART
A type of bar chart that illustrates a project
schedule. This chart lists the tasks to be
performed on the vertical axis, and time intervals
on the horizontal axis. The width of the
horizontal bars in the graph shows the duration
of each activity.

It help teams to plan work around deadlines and

properly allocate resources.
Process Flow ACTIVITY
1
ACTIVITY
4

Hierarchy
ACTIVITY
represents the sequential order of 2
steps within a process, illustrating
how different tasks relate to each
other.

ACTIVITY
3
PROGRAM
EVALUATION AND
REVIEW TECHNIQUE
(PERT)
A technique in which probabilistic time
estimates are used to accurately forecast the
duration of an activity or project,
particularly those with a high degree of
uncertainty.
 Critical Path Method
(CPM)

An approach to scheduling that orders the

tasks to complete a project (or phase of a
project) and identifies the sequence of tasks
that are most critical for the project to be
delivered on time.
Process Modeling
Relationship Framework

Combines the strengths of process modeling and

relationship frameworks to provide a structured approach
for analyzing and understanding the interactions between
different processes within a project or organization.

• Process Reference Modeling (PRM)

• Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model
Process Reference
Modeling (PRM)
a standardized framework describing key processes used
within an organization. It outlines the relationships and
interactions between these processes, providing a clear
understanding of how the various parts of the
organization function together.
Supply Chain Operations
Reference (SCOR) model

A framework specifically designed for modeling supply

chain processes, illustrating the relationships between
planning, sourcing, production, delivery, and return
processes.
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