Glossary of PM Terms
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- Resource
- An item required to accomplish an activity. Resources can be people, equipment, facilities, funding or anything else needed to perform the work of a project.
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- Resource Analysis
- A term for resource leveling and resource smoothing.
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- Resource Assignment
- The work on an activity related to a specific resource.
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- Resource Availability
- The level of availability of a resource, which may vary over time.
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- Resource Breakdown Structure
- A feature of hierarchical resources that facilitates both roll-up reporting and summary resource scheduling by enabling you to schedule at the detailed requirements level, and roll up both requirements and availabilities to a higher level.
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- Resource Calendar
- A calendar that defines the working and non-working patterns for specific resources.
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- Resource Driven Task Durations
- Task durations that are driven by the need for scarce resources.
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- Resource Histogram
- A view of project data in which resource requirements, usage, and availabilities are shown against a time scale.
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- Resource Level
- A specified level of resource units required by an activity per time unit.
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- Resource Leveling
- The resource scheduling process of determining scheduled dates such that neither the project completion date nor any target finishes are jeopardized while minimizing the maximum extent to which any resource availability is exceeded.
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- Resource Offset
- In the definition of resource requirements, the number of work periods between the start of the activity and when the resource is first required.
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- Resource Optimization
- A term for resource leveling and resource smoothing.
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- Resource Period
- In the definition of a resource requirement, the number of work periods for which a resource is required.
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- Resource Planning
- Evaluating what resources are needed to complete a project and determining the quantity needed.
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- Resource Pool
- A higher level resource in a resource breakdown structure.
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- Resource Profile
- The multiple specification of a single resource requirement or availability to indicate a variation over a period of time.
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- Resource Requirement
- The requirement for a particular resource by a particular activity.
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- Resource Scheduling
- The process of calculating a set of scheduled dates that takes into account the resource requirements of each activity and the availability of these resources.
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- Resource Scheduling
- The process of determining dates on which activities should be performed in order to smooth the demand for resources, or to avoid exceeding stated constraints on these restraints. (See also, Resource Leveling, Time-Limited Resource Scheduling and Resource-Limited Resource Scheduling.)
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- Resource Smoothing
- The process of rescheduling activities such that the requirement for resources on the project do not exceed resource limits. In smoothing, as opposed to resource leveling, the project completion date may not be delayed. Activities may only be delayed within their float.
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- Resource Thresholds
- In resource-limited scheduling it is possible to specify that a particular resource may be exceeded, if necessary, by an amount not to exceed the specified threshold for that resource.
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- Resource Total
- A specified total of resource units required by an activity over a period of time.
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- Resource-Limited Resource Scheduling
- The production of scheduled dates in which the resource constraints are considered as absolute and project completion is delayed as necessary to avoid exceeding resource requirements.
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