Provide the base information for more informed financial commitments to projects. Establish a more objective ranking of candidate projects.Allow a more effective matching of skilled resources to the right project. Avoid over-allocating limited skilled resources. Anticipate future human resource quantities and skills. Provide a valid basis for staff training. Make Project Initiation faster and more efficient.
Evaluate Resources: An updated Skills Inventory should be maintained for all corporate (Business Unit and Information Technology Department) resources that are available for project assignment.Additionally, an inventory of available contract resources should also be captured. The purpose of this Skills Inventory is to understand the true capabilities and capacities of these resources.
Due to the triple constraint which project managers face with regards to quality, time and scope, the way in which a PM deals with these constraints on top of all the other aspects of the project that need to be managed means a lot when judging a PM's skill on a project manager resume. Without Project Management there would be chaos in organisations which would induce stress, uncertainty and higher rates of failure, highlighting project management's essential nature to organisations.