Generic Resources

Some time during project planning you are not sure about of the specific individuals that will eventually be assigned to the work. In such cases you can create resource and mark them as generic resource.Generic resources can help indicate demand for resources in a specific role. This helps with capacity planning, and can be a deciding factor during portfolio analysis. Certain resources are identified as generic resources. This allows them to be identified by skill rather than by name. The Generic field indicates whether a resource is generic or not.

To Mark resource as generic, in Resource Information check the Generic checkbox.

Marking Generic Resource

You can also specify non-enterprise resources as generic. You can add the Generic field and set it to Yes for generic resources or in the Resource Information dialog box, select the Generic check box on the General tab.

For example in our case we will create resource vendor to outsourced jobs in our project.

 Use the Resource Substitution Wizard to automatically replace generic resources with actual resources from the enterprise resource pool.