Creating, Defining, and Assigning Resources
Resources are like the superheroes of your project. They are not just another tool in your toolkit, they are the key to your project’s success. This chapter will be like your hidden guide for making your staff or resources and equipment more efficient and effective. We’ll begin by discussing the various kinds of resources, and then proceed to assigning them to tasks. We’ll also address the difficulty of handling multiple resources on one task and learn the secret of effort-driven scheduling. By mastering the strategies in this chapter, project managers will effectively control the three main factors of scope, time, and cost, which are also called the triple constraint triangle. This chapter will also show how good resource management is the key to solving project challenges.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- Defining resources
- Assigning resources to tasks
- Assigning...