Post on 05-Jan-2016
Resource Allocation
Men , Material, Money are three resources required for any activity.
If shortage of resources the activity cannot be completed in time
Project mgr has to come across resource constraints
Hence the job of project mgr is to plan and allocate resources for different activities so that resource utilization is optimized.
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Two situations Resource Leveling –
analysis aims at stabilization of rate of resource utilization by various activities at different times without changing the project duration.
Resources are constraints while time is in plenty.
Resource Smoothing (Loading)- analysis aims to reduce peak demand for resources and
reallocating among activities of a project in a manner so that the total project duration remains shortest.
Time is constraint but resources are not the constraints.Period of max. demand for resources are identified and
non critical activities are staggered by re scheduling them according to the floats for balancing resource requirements
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Bar Chart or Gantt Chart
It requires list of activities & estimated time of completion of individual activity.
Pictorial devices in which activities are represented by horizontal bars on the ‘ time axis’
S- chart
Display of cumulative costs, labour hours or other quantities plotted against time.
Indicator and its used for many applications such as target, baseline, cost , time
Draw the resource loading chart and gantt chart. What is the peak requirement of the resource and on which day it
occurs. Q6b-2007
Activity Preceding Activity
Duration (Days) Total Manpower required
A - 3 60
B - 4 84
C A 2 22
D A 3 36
E B 6 72
F D,E 3 18
G C 5 35
H F 6 42
I G,H 7 56
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A project consists of 9 activities for which data is given below. Draw the resource loading chart for the project. What is the maximum requirement of the cash and on which day it occurs
Q7(b)-2008
Activity Immediate Predecessor
Duration (Days) Total cash flow required for the activity (Rs. Lakhs)
A - 5 25
B - 5 30
C A 10 40
D B 7 28
E A 6 12
F C,D 8 24
G C,D 6 15
H E,F 5 10
I G 4 12
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