Activity Planning and Resource Planning
•Description: Based on results of activity planning, identify resources (people, tools, materiel, schedule, funds). Identify personnel in terms of skills/experience, time available to do the work, schedule (are they available when needed), and cost (related to budget).
•Why it is important: Identifying resource constraints early in a project allows time to consider alternates to schedule, budget, risk and quality. This also assists in the on-boarding of team members as well as alerting management to potential future issues in a timely manner supporting decision making as early as possible.
•Tools: MS Project or similar tools, risk matrix, quality control plans, budget, personnel knowledge, skills and abilities, market research, review of lessons learned subject matter expert interviews, document results and review with customer to fine tune, obtain written agreement to proposed plan.
•How Wright Management and Consulting Group performs this task:Interviews, research, analysis of alternatives, requirements and engineering analysis, cost analysis, schedule and risk analyses.
•Link to other project tasks: The next phase is time management/estimating.
Training/mentoring offered: Risk management, Quality management, WBS, requirements definition, planning,
•Why it is important: Identifying resource constraints early in a project allows time to consider alternates to schedule, budget, risk and quality. This also assists in the on-boarding of team members as well as alerting management to potential future issues in a timely manner supporting decision making as early as possible.
•Tools: MS Project or similar tools, risk matrix, quality control plans, budget, personnel knowledge, skills and abilities, market research, review of lessons learned subject matter expert interviews, document results and review with customer to fine tune, obtain written agreement to proposed plan.
•How Wright Management and Consulting Group performs this task:Interviews, research, analysis of alternatives, requirements and engineering analysis, cost analysis, schedule and risk analyses.
•Link to other project tasks: The next phase is time management/estimating.
Training/mentoring offered: Risk management, Quality management, WBS, requirements definition, planning,