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Resource Management Overview

This section contains the following topics:

About Resource Management

Resource Management Components

Resource Management Jobs

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:

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.

Resource Management Components

You can access the following Resource Management components from the Resource Management menu:

Resources

Use Resources to create and edit resource profiles, and skills. You can also use this component to find specific resources, or to find resources with specific qualifications for specific projects.

Resource Planning

Use Resource Planning to view and change resource workload allocations across all the projects to which resources are assigned, or on individual projects. Use Resource Planning to view and track unfilled role allocations.

Resource Finder

Use Resource Finder to locate resources. The Resource Finder lets you specify resources by name or by other criteria such as skills, employment type, and availability.

To use Resource Management feature, you must have resource access rights.

See the appendix for a list of resource management access rights.

More information:

Finding Resources

Resource Management Access Rights

Resource Management Jobs

The Time Slicing job can affect data or the performance of the resource management. When the Time Slicing job fails to run, time-sliced data shown on resource planning pages cannot display properly.

When the existing or edited data fails to display in the expected ways on a page or in a report, contact your administrator. The failure of jobs to run could cause failure in display.

Contact your CA Clarity PPM administrator or see the Administration Guide for more information.