Resources

Resources include the personnel and equipment that perform work on activities across all projects. Resources are generally reused between activities and/or projects. In P6 Professional you can create a resource pool that reflects your organization's resource structure and supports the assignment of resources to activities. P6 Professional also enables you to distinguish between labor, material, and nonlabor resources. Labor and nonlabor resources are always time-based, and material resources, such as consumable items, use a unit of measure you can specify. You can create and assign resource calendars and define a resource's roles, contact information, and time-varying prices.

Define a master list of resources consisting of the resources necessary to complete the projects in your organization. Then, group resources to create an easily accessible pool from which you can draw when assigning resources to a project. For each resource, set availability limits, unit prices, and a calendar to define its standard worktime and nonworktime, then allocate resources to the activities that require them. To enable grouping and rollups of your resources across the organization, set up resource codes and assign code values.

Resources are different than expenses. While resources can be time-based and generally extend across multiple activities and/or projects, expenses are one-time expenditures for nonreusable items required by activities. P6 Professional does not include expenses when leveling resources.

Primary Resources

P6 Professional allows you to assign primary resources to activities. An activity's primary resource is typically the resource who is responsible for coordinating an activity's work.

Resource Security

Resource security allows the administrator to restrict your resource access by assigning you to a node in the resource hierarchy. That node is your root node. Once assigned to a resource node, you have access only to your root node and all of its children. In the Resource Assignments window you still have access to current project resources even if they are outside your root node.