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Wolfgang Cronenbroeck
2.2.4 DEPLOYMENT OF STAFF PLANNING
Assigning workers due to their qualifi cations.
In the next planning step the employees are asigned to individual activities of the schedule ac-
cording to the relevant qualifi cations. This activity should be carried out by the project manager in
close collaboration with the members of his core team, as they have the best knowledge of which
local resources are available.
Personnel deployment planning is done at the operational level. The project manager must ex-
amine the availability of the individual employees and gather the approval of their line managers
in this classifi cation.
When planning deployment of workers, they must also consider that the workers may have limited
availability due to vacation, training, other tasks which need to be carried out or illness.
Furthermore, they must consider that not all the activities required for the project (e.g. activities
for project management, agreement, resource acquisition, etc.) can be planned in a process.
In order to correctly consider the effort required in the worker deployment plan, the whole capacity
of an employee must be appropriately reduced. In general, one should assume an availability of a
maximum of 80% of the work time. Where appropriate, if there is a shortage of (internal or exter-
nal) staff availability, the process must be revised and schedules should be adapted.
2.2.5 BUDGETING
Classifying the costs of the procedures
Figure 26 | Gantt chart with worker assignment
Estimates of costs, duration and employee deployment in all work packets and activities form the
basis of budgeting. The project budget and respective project sections and work packet costs can
be determined in accordance with the project breakdown.
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