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.
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
How This Process Connects
Every process hands artifacts to other processes. Follow the flow of this one:
Where its inputs come from
- Develop Project Charterproduces: Project charter
- Develop Project Management Planproduces: Project management plan
More in Project Resource Management
In the Domains & Principles View
The PMBOK® Guide frames this work through performance domains and principles:
In the Eighth Edition
This process describes the framework as set out in the Sixth and Seventh Editions. The Eighth Edition reorganized it into 6 principles, 7 performance domains and 40 processes.