Project management
Defines outcomes, milestones, work, dependencies, estimates, ownership, dates, risk, and progress.
Resource planning guide
Resource planning vs project management: what is the difference?
Understand how work planning and people planning answer different questions, and why delivery improves when the two stay connected.
Project management defines the work. Resource planning tests whether the organization can deliver it.
Resource planning
Defines roles, skills, people, availability, demand, allocations, conflicts, and capacity across all work.
A project date is credible only when demand fits available capacity.
A project plan can look complete while depending on people who are unavailable or already committed. A resource plan can look balanced while supporting work that has changed. Connecting both views keeps dates, demand, and assignments grounded in the same evidence.
Questions a connected workflow should answer.
- ✓What work remains and when is it needed?
- ✓Which roles and skills does that work require?
- ✓Who is genuinely available during that period?
- ✓What other projects compete for the same people?
- ✓How will a scope, estimate, or date change affect capacity?
- ✓How does recorded time compare with the plan?
Begin with the decision that is currently unclear.
If delivery dates are unreliable, start with project scope and estimates. If teams are overloaded or idle, start with availability and allocations. Then connect the missing side instead of creating another isolated spreadsheet.