Managing Resources

Resources are workers, equipment and materials used for fulfilling tasks in a project.

Evaluating resource requirements.

Having defined the subject and goals of a project and having prepared the tasks list for developing your project, you can start planning resources. To understand what types of resources and what amount of them will be enough for realizing your project, follow the procedure described below.


Creating Resources

Any ConceptDraw Project resource is created for the whole project at first and then it is assigned to each specific project task.

To create a resource:

  1. Click the Tools - Editing of Resources button in the toolbar or in the Tools menu.
    The Resources dialog box appears on the screen. It is empty.
  2. Click the Add button. A new resource is generated and displayed.
  3. Assign parameters to a new resource:
  4. Click OK.

Resource Types

There are two resource types - Worker and Material - in ConceptDraw Project.

People realizing any project are always its main element. This factor is taken into account by introducing the parameter Worker.

Realization of any project demands both materials and financial expenditures. Proceeding from general provisions of economics the material factor is included into ConceptDraw Project by introducing an integrated Material type combining any material expenditures in a project which are not connected with people.

To create a resource type:

  1. In the Tasks menu click the Editing of Resources option.
    The Resource Types list box appears.
  2. Select the required resource name and double click the scroll-bar control in the Resource Type line.
  3. Click the required resource type in the resource list.

The Resource Type is assigned and displayed in the typeline.

The Resource Costs Concept

The Resource Costs are the equivalent expression of resources shown in the currency of a particular country.

There are two types of costs in ConceptDraw Project:

  1. The Relative Resource Cost, i.e., total costs of a resource referred to 1 day of using this resource.
    This type is used for workers.
  2. The Absolute Resource Cost is the cost of a resource as it is, i.e. the usual cost of purchase, the bank credit, materials, etc.

To assign a resource type:

  1. In the Tasks menu click the Editing of Resources option. The Resource types list box appears.
  2. Select the required resource name and double click the Cost line.
  3. Edit your costs for this resource.

Assigning Resources to Task

To assign resources to task two variants can be used:

  1. Click the Assign Resources to Task option in the Tasks menu.
  2. Right-click in the Gantt Chart window to call the shortcut.
    Click the Assign Resources to Task option in the menu.

For further actions: See Task Information section.