Success by efficient resource planning in a project based environment

The number and frequency of project activities increase in daily working life. Consequently, the significance of project success gains in importance which requires high accuracy of the project results regarding time/progress, budget and resources. A foundation of project success is built by project planning - especially by project resource planning. Objective resource planning is based on project's characteristics and complexity which can be described by project factors. They allow to determine the required amount of managerial capacities (e.g. project manager, sub-project manager) related to project content within its enterprise-specific restrictions. Such calculation presupposes data of former projects to define the project type and to predict resource demands by using the statistical methods correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. Finally, a critical acclaim of the new developed resource planning methodology is necessary for its evaluation.