Identifying a Specific Resource Needed
Knowing the need for a specific resource will occur quite often. When the situation comes up, we are faced with the question, "Should we put that specific person in the plan?" If you do and if that person is not available when you need him or her, how will that affect your cycle plan? If he or she is very highly skilled and you used that information to estimate the duration of the task that person was to work on, you may have a problem. If you cannot replace him or her with an equally skilled individual, will that create a slippage that dominoes through the cycle schedule? Take your choice. It's often a good idea to have a contingency plan if you can't get a specific resource at exactly the time when you need him or her.
We now have estimated the parameters needed to begin constructing the cycle schedule. The task duration estimates provide input to planning the order and sequence of completing the work defined by the tasks. Once the initial schedule is built, we can use the resource requirements and availability data to further modify the schedule.
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