Part 28: Knowledge Areas: Project Resource Management
Project Resource Management
- Processes to identify, acquire, and manage the resources required for the project
- The project manager must be the leader of the project team
- Motivating team members, and ensure they all contribute
- Develop team skills
- Ensure that team members follow ethical behavior
- Improve Emotional Intelligence
- Self-Organizing Team
- Used in Agile projects, especially IT projects
- The team will not have a central control
- The project manager provides the team with a productive environment
- Each team member is a specialist, capable of adapting to their environment
- Virtual Team
- The team members can be spread out geographically
- Can use technology (video conferencing, e-mail, etc.) to communicate
- Advantage is that people who work from home or are disabled can join the team. Experts who would are located far away can also contribute.
- Disadvantage is that the team members may have time zone differences, cultural differences, feel isolated, or have a difficulty sharing their experience without meeting face-to-face
- Physical resources
- Maintaining the correct inventory level of required materials & equipment
- Can use Just-In-Time (JIT), Kaizen, or other methods
- Ensuring that materials & equipment are of the correct quality
- Predict supply and demand of physical resources
- Maintaining the correct inventory level of required materials & equipment