Identifying Resources Before You Have Resources
It’s not uncommon, as you begin a project, to find that you don’t know exactly who or what resource you need to complete a task, but that you can describe the skills or features the resource needs. In this case, you can define generic resources and use them as placeholders until the time when you need the real deal. For "people" resources (called work resources in Project), this approach works particularly well if your Human Resources department has job descriptions for each of the resources you might want to assign to your project.
When you define generic resources, make sure they’re truly generic. Give them names, such as "Programmer" or "Lead Designer" or "Project Assistant," that describe the ...
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