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\nYour project won't get done by itself. And, if it's big, you can't do it all yourself. You need resources. But how many people (and how much material and equipment) do you need? I explain how to deduce Project resource requirements for...\nYour project won't get done by itself. And, if it's big, you can't do it all yourself. You need resources. But how many people (and how much material and equipment) do you need? I explain how to deduce Project resource requirements for your next project.


The main challenges of Project Resource Management are all about getting things ‘right’:
• Right resources…
• in the right quantities…
• to the right specifications, quality standards, or with the right capabilities…
• in the right place…
• at the right time.

Therefore, this suggests a number of challenges:
• Availability
• Estimation
• Conflicting commitments
• Balancing workload (in the case of people)
• Delivery
• Timing

The four steps are:
1. Understand the activities needed to deliver your project
2. From the activities, extract your resource requirements
3. Apply your resources to the activities
4. Balance your resource usage to optimize your efficiency

1. Understand the activities needed to deliver your project
Against each activity you’ll be able to list the types of skills you’ll require, and the length of time (duration) you will need them for.

2. From the activities, extract your resource requirements
You need to match this against capability assessments– these may include skill or experience levels you require or prefer.
For the durations, you will need to understand the craft of estimating and, guess what? Yup, we have videos and guides

3. Apply your resources to the activities
Allocating those resources to the task. There are some great tools to help you with this, which include:
• RACI Chart, for allocating people to key roles
• Linear Responsibility Chart – LRC (also called a Resource Allocation Matrix – RAM)
• Work Package Descriptions – to help with the accountability of allocations of people to activities
• Resource Breakdown Structure to map (material and asset) resources onto WBS tasks
• Organization Breakdown Structure to map human resources onto WBS tasks
• Scheduling the deployment of the resources in conjunction with your master project schedule

4. Balance your resource usage to optimize your efficiency
To get the most efficient allocation of resources, you will need to balance their utilization, using resource smoothing and resource levelling.

Note that the steps of applying resources and balancing them up are iterative. You’ll rarely get the best allocation at the first pass. This will also involve:

Resource Scheduling: placing activities in the timeline, to optimize the use of the resources you have allocated to them

Resource Smoothing: moving resources deployment to different points in the schedule, to make more efficient use of them. Here, the timeline is your priority.

Resource Levelling: spreading out the duration to avoid over-allocation of resources. It improves speed and efficiency of delivery, with the resource utilization as your priority. (we have a video)

When you finish the planning, you’ll move into delivery of your project, and active management of your project resources.\n
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