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RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

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What is Resource Management?

• Resource Management is the efficient and effective deployment of an organization's resources, when they are needed.

• Summarizes the level of resources needed to complete a project.

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Why is it important?• Types of labour required for the project• Roles and key responsibilities for each labour type• Number of people required to fill each role• Equipment to be used and their purposes• Total amount of materials needed

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What does it include?

• Resource Identification• Resource Levelling• Resource Utilization• Effort Estimation• Resource Tracking

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How is it done in project?

• Organization chart and position description– Organizational Breakdown Structure

• Networking– Formal– Informal

• Organizational theory– Interaction between people, Team and organizational

unit– Applying proven principles

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Resource in Project Management

Develop Human

Resource Plan

Acquire Project Team

Develop Project Team

Manage Project Team

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Develop Human Resource Plan

• Identify team members and assign them with roles and responsibility.

• Performance measures and rewards for their performance.

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Develop Human Resource Plan

• Different specialties needed to complete the project.

• Candidate Job description.• Type of communication (formal/ Informal).• Individual goals and agenda.

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Acquire Project Team

• Acquire the specific people needed for the project.

• Pre-Assignments• Negotiation• Virtual Teams

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Acquire Project Team

• Availability• Ability• Experience• Interest• Cost

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Develop Project Team

• Inter-personal skills– Leadership–Mentoring– Decision Making– Networking–Motivation

• Training (improve skill and knowledge of team members)

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Develop Project Team

• Building the project team (Guide, Manage and Improve team)

• Recognition and rewards (Motivating the team)

• Co-location (Place all team members in same location)

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Manage Project Team

• Observation (Understand how things are going)

• Performance appraisal (Motivation)• Issues Log (Monitor team issues)

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Manage Project Team

• Interpersonal skills• Conflict management– Confronting– Compromising–Withdraw– Smoothing– Forcing

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What are the benefits?

• Increased revenue• Conflict resolution• Improve project delivery• Maintaining Work

Atmosphere• Developing

communication

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How does Primavera help?

• Resource leveling• Resource usage spreadsheet• Resource usage profile• Allocate roles to resource• Resource type• Unit of measure• Unit/Price of resources

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How does MSP help?

• Resource leveling• Unit/Price of resources• Resource Analysis (whether there is any over

allocated resource )• Resource Graph• Task Sheet

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OOCL Atlanta• 22 Resource• Ordinary seaman• 5 Engineer• 4 Officers

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