Implementing Project Portfolio Management: From Organization Structure to Recognized Revenue · Module 8 · Resource Breakdown Structures
Resource classes and resource formats
Lesson 80 of 198 · 2 min
Resource classes are the top-level buckets. Labour, equipment, material, and financial. Every planning resource belongs to one. Labour — people, expressed by job, role, person or organization. Equipment — nonlabor resources. Material — consumables and materials. Financial — money-only resources, where you plan an amount without a quantity. THE FINANCIAL RESOURCE CLASS IS THE ONE PEOPLE MISS. It is how you plan a lump sum — subcontract, travel budget, contingency — without pretending it has a quantity. It solves a problem clients raise constantly, and it is the answer to "how do I just budget an amount?", which you will be asked on every project. Resource formats are the combinations of resource types that define what a planning resource looks like. A format might be "job", or "job and organization", or "person", or "expenditure type." Why formats exist. They let you plan at different levels of specificity within one structure.…
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In this module: Module 8 · Resource Breakdown Structures
- 1What we are building
- 2Why the RBS is permanent
- 3Resource classes and resource formats
- 4Planning versus reporting structures
- 5Designing the hierarchyFree preview
- 6Running the RBS design workshop
- 7Creating a planning RBS
- 8Adding planning resources
- 9Centralized versus project-level maintenance
- 10Creating a reporting RBS
- 11Proving the structure works
- 12What breaksFree preview
- 13Lab briefing: plan for a CFO and a bid team at once
- 14Lab solution walkthrough