Management of engineering resources

In our review of the planning of engineering work, we addressed the quantification of manhours and the sequencing of work without really addressing the availability of resources, that is, the human resources, the 

The management of process plant engineering resource costs and schedule durations is frequently problematical and occasionally disastrous. Often the problems stem from a technical error, or series of errors, which are discovered too late and require remedial action. Equally often, however, the problems stem from management failure, that is, from failure to plan the work and control its execution according to the plan. The plan may be unachievable because the project team is not sufficiently competent to meet the challenge, or because irresistible (or insufficiently resisted) external factors dictated an over-optimistic commitment. 

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