Resource Assignments
Delivery, Project and Resource Managers, Portfolio Managers, Planners

The Hewlett-Packard Project and Portfolio system has been reconfigured to reflect the recent organizational changes for the 2008 Development Annual Plan (DAP) and operating calendar

Framework and Background

The conceptual design of the HP-PPM system revolves around resource utilization and optimization. The system process and objects include:

1. Resource Pools – collection of individuals with a common resource manager responsible for “allocating” resources to approved work initiatives. Each resource (person) is tagged with a specific “Role” (think of this as a capability or area of expertise; not specific skill) and is assigned to a Resource Pool. This pool then acts as a supply and demand center for all work initiatives requiring that “Role”. Each resource is assigned a “capacity” (typically 40 hours per week), which establishes the “supply” side of the demand management equation. A Resource Pool may contain more than one Role, or set of individuals.

In our case, the Resource Pool has been established at the Department (budget) level, so there are 7 primary (contains assignable resources) resource pools in IT:

➢ Product Technology Enterprise Governance ➢ Information Strategy Product Development ➢ Technical Operations Business Services ➢ Enterprise Architecture Pools for Program and Product Management, as well as Customer Service have also been established.

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2. Staffing Profile – a collection of “Roles” required to complete an initiative, with hours by month estimates. This is the strategic level of resource “demand” planning and is included as a cost element of new work proposed in the form of a Proposal. Proposals may be created as