Plan Resource Management

Process

Identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, and reporting relationships and defining how team and physical resources will be estimated, acquired, managed, and used.

When performed: Once or at predefined points

Process group: Planning

Knowledge Area: Resource Management

Outputs Created

• Resource management plan*
• Team charter*

Outputs Updated

• Risk register
• Assumption log

Inputs

• Project charter*
• Quality management plan
• Scope baseline
• Project schedule
• Requirements documentation
• Stakeholder register
• Risk register
• Enterprise environmental factors
  • Organizational culture and structure
  • Geographic distribution of facilities and resources
  • Existing resources competencies and availability
  • Marketplace conditions
• Organizational process assets
  • Human resource policies and procedures
  • Physical resource management policies and procedures
  • Safety policies
  • Security policies
  • Templates for the resource management plan
  • Historical information for similar projects

Tools & Techniques

• Hierarchical charts
• Responsibility assignment matrix
• Text-oriented formats
• Organizational theory
• Meetings
• Expert judgment

Key inputs & outputs are indicated with *