Plan Resource Management

Defines how to estimate, acquire, manage, and release the team and physical resources, producing the resource management plan and team charter. It sets out who does what and how the team will work.

Process Group Planning Knowledge Area Project Resource Management

Plan Resource Management determines roles, responsibilities, reporting relationships, and how people and physical resources will be acquired, developed, and released. It produces the resource management plan and a team charter that captures the team’s working agreements and ground rules.

Plan Resource Management: key inputs and outputs — The key inputs feeding Plan Resource Management and the deliverables it produces — full ITTOs are listed below.

Tools like responsibility assignment matrices (RACI) make accountability explicit. Thinking through resource needs early avoids the common trap of discovering too late that key skills or equipment are not available when needed.

Common pitfalls. Unclear roles and overlapping accountability; assuming key people will be available without confirming; ignoring physical-resource logistics; and no team charter, so norms are left to chance.

Inputs, Tools & Techniques, and Outputs

Inputs

Project charter
Project management plan
Project documents
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets

Tools & Techniques

Expert judgment
Data representation
Organizational theory
Meetings

Outputs

Resource management plan
Team charter
Project documents updates