All about resourcing

Resourcing is the allocation of resources to projects, with consideration to their availability, percentage allotment, role, skillset, and groups required. The goal of resourcing is to meet all project requirements, while keeping all resources as utilized as possible.

For more information on resourcing, refer to:

• Requesting project resources
• Fulfilling resource requests

Typical resourcing workflow

1. Project manager requests one or more resources for their project, specifying the role, duration, and other requirements that need to be filled. Request is labeled Submitted.
2. The resource request displays on the Project Resourcing > Pending tab.
3. Resource manager selects and proposes a suitable resource to fill the request. Once a proposal is made, the request is labeled Tentative.
4. Project manager either accepts or rejects the proposed resource.

• • If they accept, the request is marked as Complete.
  • If they reject, the request is marked as Res Rejected, and is sent back to the resource manager, where they can update the request and propose new resources.

Setting up resourcing

Before resource managers can start allocating resources to projects, administrators may need to:

• Assign permissions to resource managers, project managers, and resources
• Create skills
• Create roles and associated rates
• Set up notifications
• Create and assign schedules
• Set resource profile settings, including roles, skills, user custom field settings, group assignments (e.g. location), certifications and any other documents (e.g. licenses, recommendation letters, resumes, etc)

Related links

Setting up resource profiles
Setting up resourcing notifications
Requesting project resources
Fulfilling resource requests