Project Planning Techniques Book (with CD)

3 Resource Breakdown Structure

Managers have a long history of dividing anticipated project work into smaller and smaller parcels and graphically presenting the resulting structure. As with the WBS, this “breaking down” of the work facilitates management of the project’s constituent elements in many ways. Similarly, during the very early stages of the project planning process, the project’s in-house resources should be examined in an equally methodical manner in the process of creating the resource breakdown structure (RBS). If internal resources need to be augmented, this RBS must include project-specific resources that the manager needs to obtain from outside the organization. The RBS will greatly facilitate the resource assignments and scheduling ...