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Roles vs Resources

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Thu, 2010-06-24 22:24
Ruel Camaquin
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Guys,

Can you define what exactly is the difference (in function)of ROLES and RESOURCES in P6, i have been doing test project for resourcing but i always ended up confused with the two. And the book from Paul Harris defines both but do nor explains the main function of each.

Thanks in advance to all respondents.

Ruel
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Sun, 2010-06-27 06:16
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Ali Farhat
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Ruel,
A role is a job or function
A resource is te "person" who performs the role
Example of roles: engineer, surpervisor,etc...
for each resource you assign the roles hhe can play. a reosurce can play more than one role to a certain proficiency. each role can be played by various resources. Assign roles to your activities early in the project when you have not determeined which resource is to be used. Later on, you can replace roles with the resources.
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Fri, 2010-06-25 06:03
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Rodel Marasigan
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Ruel,
I already explain this in other thread. Anyway Roles is normally used for initial planning if resources are not yet available and when doing the detail planning then roles will be replaced by the detail resources. Role cannot be level.
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