Resource Management

Question 1

What is resource smoothing?

Answer 1

Prioritising the deadline of the project by reallocating resources

Question 2

What is Resource levelling

Answer 2

Prioritising a project’s Resource constraint by utilising float and/or extending the project deadline

Question 3

What is a Critical chain?

Answer 3

The longest sequence of both project tasks and resource-dependent tasks that determines a project’s overall completion time

Considers: resource limitations and task dependencies

Question 4

What is a task dependency?

Answer 4

Relationships between tasks in a project that determine the order of their execution

Where one task cannot start or finish until another (a predecessor) has started or finished

Question 5

Name the four key resource categories and the 2 sub-categories

Answer 5

Key:
1. Human (Labour)
2. Materials
3. Plant & equipment
4. Facilities

Sub-categories:
1. Consumable resources
2. Deployable resources