Summary

This chapter’s focus was on planning for project resources. Several aspects are involved in these planning activities, including procuring goods and services, planning human resources, and defining the activities in which human resources will be involved.

This chapter started with the Plan Procurements process. This process identifies the goods or services you’re going to purchase from outside the organization and determines which goods or services the project team can meet. This involves tools and techniques such as make-or-buy decisions, expert judgment, and contract types. The procurement management plan is one of the outputs of this process and describes how procurement services will be managed throughout the project. The procurement SOW (another output of this process) describes the work that will be contracted.