5.4: Project Resource Management Plan
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Project planning is at the heart of the project life cycle and tells everyone involved where we are going and how we are going to get there. It involves creating a set of plans to help guide the project team through the implementation and closure phases of the project. The project resource management plan is one of the sub-plans of the overall project plan. It provides the guidelines to project managers on how to estimate, acquire, manage and utilize physical and team resources[1]. It is the process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project resources[2].
The resource management plan can consist of the following:
- Project Organization Charts
- Project team members and their reporting relationships are displayed in these charts.
- A team charter is prepared to establish team values, agreements, communication guidelines, decision-making criteria and processes, and operating guidelines for the team[3].
- Resource requirements
- Types of resources (e.g., human resources, physical resources, services)
- Human resources (Core team members and people for all project activities)
- Required skills and competencies
- Roles and responsibilities
- Authority level (e.g., decision-making, inspecting, and accepting deliverables)
- Effort in hours (e.g., daily working hours – full-time or part-time, the total amount of work hours)
- Source (e.g., PMO – Project Management Office, other functional units, regional offices, outsourcing, offshoring)
- WBS activity link
- Required features for physical resources (e.g., equipment, materials, facilities, infrastructure, supplies)
- Project team resource management
- Methods for developing and managing the project team
- The decision criteria when to use project team human resources and the human resources outside the team.
- Resourcing strategy
- How will resources be acquired and released from the project?
- Resourcing assumptions
- Are there any assumptions about the resource requirement estimates?
- Vacations, holidays, training, meetings, interruptions, sick leave.
- Rewards and recognition
- Define the criteria for rewarding project team members for the work that they have done.
- Which rewards will be given and when?
- How much money is set aside for the project?
- Resource control
- Which methods will be used to monitor and control the project resources?
- Health and safety
- Are there specific health and safety practices that will be followed on the project?
In the resource management plan, including a Resource Breakdown Structure would help the team substantially to illustrate the needs in a hierarchical structure. An example is given in Figure 5.1 of a Resource Breakdown Structure.
- Project Management Institute. (2017). A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK guide) (6th ed.). Project Management Institute. ↵
- Project Management Institute. (2017). A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK guide) (6th ed.). Project Management Institute. ↵
- Project Management Institute. (2017). A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK guide) (6th ed.). Project Management Institute. ↵