Role: Resource Manager |
This role plans for allocation of staffing and manages the building of skills required for individual projects or for the organization.
Relationships
Performs: Consolidate Supply | Responsible for: Resources List
Additionally Performs: Authorize and Assign Components | Modifies: Resources List
Main Description
This role is primarily responsible for managing project staffing, with a focus on optimizing an organization's profit. This role develops and manages the tactical and strategic resource plan and skill management process for an area or an entire organization. This role also assists project managers in assigning people with appropriate skills to specific projects. In order to support the organizational and project needs, this role develops and manages the plan to acquire staff (new-hires, internal hires, and subcontractors) and to develop new skills within the organization by coordinating training, mentoring, and other educational experiences, as needed.
Properties
Multiple Occurrences |
Optional |
Planned |
Staffing
Assignment Approaches | In some organizations, a person performing the project manager role also performs the resource manager role for the project by being responsible for hiring resources and coordinating skills development in the context of the project.
Key Considerations
In the context of portfolio management, this role performs a complete and accurate assessment of available capacity to avoid overbooking resources that are allocated to components within the portfolio.
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