So let's take a look at resource management resource management can be defined as comprising of the
acquisition and deployment of internal and external resources required to deliver the projects program
or portfolio.
It's includes people machinery materials technology property and anything else.
The organization's strategy and resource planning constantly change.
So it's important to make sure that you can move resources around to meet the new strategy requirements
and if things need moving around you need to think about the governance boards and what boards you need
to go to in order to accept that change.
So setting up the management infrastructure is called mobilization projects and programs are temporary
organizations whereas the portfolio of course is a permanent or semi-permanent structure.
Therefore whilst the infrastructure for managing a portfolio is mobilized once the projects program
infrastructure is mobilized and demobilized on a regular basis the projects and business as usual units
within a program will have varying resource needs.
The program manager sets out how the responsibility for managing the resources will be shared between
the projects and the program management.
This means implementing an overall strategy whilst allowing projects to be managed without too much
interference you'll need to consider facts such like how much of the infrastructure can be shared.
What opportunities are there for Pan Program procurements.
Are there any projects we have very specialized resource requirements and can trenches be structured
to make resource usage more efficient
resources are an important constraint that will greatly influence how the program is structured and
programs remember have a wide impact on the organization because they bring about change and realize
benefits as well as deliver project outputs.
So all these factors need to be investigated during the definition phase of the program and those results
need to be shared widely amongst the stakeholders and relevant people in the organization that covers
resource management.
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