Chapter 1
Foundations of Project Management
Course: Pmp Test Prep
Subject: Pmp
Chapter: Stakeholders And Resources Performance Domains 5506 10748
Lesson 4: Resources: Key Concepts
Every project runs on resources — the people who do the work and the physical and virtual assets they use — and the Resources performance domain is about planning for and using both effectively and efficiently.
This lesson establishes what the domain covers and works through its key concepts: the distinction between human resources and physical/virtual resources, the leadership role of the project manager, the authority of the resource manager, and the ways resources are acquired internally versus externally.
For the aspiring project manager, the central insight is that managing people and managing things require fundamentally different skills, and that a project team often does not have full control over which resources it gets.
The throughline is that the domain is about ensuring the right resources — human and physical — are available at the right time and place, while recognizing that team resources demand leadership and motivation whereas physical resources demand logistics and procurement.