• You are now deciding on resources for a project team. You have a choice to staff a team of resources who will be dedicated (or allocated) 100% to the project, or to staff a team of resources who will be dedicated (or allocated) three days each week to your project. Using information from the readings, explain how you can use either set of resources.

Reading summary:

The consideration of resources adds another dimension to planning and scheduling; resources can constrain a project.

Resources can include people, materials, equipment, tools, facilities, and other crucial elements to a project.

A resource requirements plan illustrates the expected utilization of resources by time period during the time span of the project.

Resource leveling, or smoothing, is a method for developing a schedule that attempts to minimize the fluctuations in requirements for resources when the project completion time is fixed.

Resource-limited scheduling is a method for developing the shortest schedule when the quantity of available resources is fixed, and may extend the project completion time in order to keep within the resource limits.