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About Resource Management

Deploying skilled professionals to the right project teams is the key to effective resource management. Resource Management provides a flexible framework in which you can perform and monitor the following resource management activities:

• Create and edit resource profiles that identify various characteristics including primary role, skills, experience, employee type and more.
• View, edit, and track resource project allocations and workloads.
• Compare resource capacity with resource demand.
• Locate resources with specific characteristics, by availability, and more.

The audience for Resource Management is resource managers. A resource manager is anyone who manages the time of an employee or other resource type. A resource manager can be a temporary project lead or a full-time department head. Project managers use Resource Management features, such as creating requisitions and finding resources.