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The difficulties of planning resources in project management

The difficulties of planning resources in project management

From the course: AI in Project Management

The difficulties of planning resources in project management

- The next area where we could certainly do with some help is the planning of resources. Who will do which job in the project? But can AI help with this? People are good at different things. So, the objective in any project is to use everyone's skills to the maximum. But this is difficult because sometimes the ideal person is busy on something else, sometimes people don't like doing the things that they're good at, or we want them to learn something new, which they're currently not very good at, or they do a great quality job, but they're slow, or they're fast, but make some mistakes. It's hard to be scientific with this, and often this part of planning is done rapidly and without much thought. We just pick the obvious or the easiest people. It's particularly easy to neglect personal development when you allocate roles to a task within a project. Allocating roles is especially difficult when you have a larger project and you've got a lot of people and a lot of tasks to match up…

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