Project Plan: Resource Needs
Process impact: Based on the project plan and the worksheet below, this project will need the following resources to meet its goals. If fewer resources are available, the scope of the release should be reconsidered or the process must be changed.
Human Resources Needs
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Capital Needs
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Resources Needs Checklist
The goal of this checklist is to help expose resource needs that might otherwise be missed. It does not help with the actual estimated number of hours needed. Those estimates should be based on the project plan.
Does this project need more than a few days work
Are the requirements already completely defined and validated
What aspects of the system need to be designed
Does the project plan include any new development
Does the project plan include complex configuration of existing components
Is the entire development team have an agreed upon software development methodology
Does the project plan include end-user documentation
What is the complexity of the internal documentation
Will the technical support, training, operations, or services groups deal with the product of this project
Will the product of this project be sold to customers, directly or indirectly
Does the QA plan call for the running of automated unit tests
Does the QA plan call for more than the running of automated unit tests
How many development workstations will be needed
What development servers are needed
What database servers are needed
What machines are needed for automated testing
What machines are needed for load testing
What software components must be licensed for this project
Are any of the personnel assignments of capital allocations conditional
Have these resource assignments been communicated to the people being assigned and their managers