Profiles

A profile is a set of resource characteristics or criteria that you use to plan project activities. Profiles are defined in terms of skills, competencies, and experience. The profile criteria are used to search for resources that best match the project requirements. After you identify suitable resources, profiles are replaced with the resources.

A profile is a combination of the following attributes:

Profiles are created as common application data in Application Administration, and are available to be assigned to projects. Skills and competencies must be defined so that they are available for you to select when creating a profile.

During the project planning phase, use profiles in place of actual resource records. Profile records behave the same way as resource records, except that they do not represent actual resources. Project managers assign profiles to projects, and to project tasks, with a specified duration and effort. Later, as resources are identified for the profiles, the profiles can be replaced with the resources. The resources inherit the assignment properties of the profile, such as the start and finish dates, duration, and effort.

Each profile defines a resource criteria set that is relevant to the organization. For example, an organization can have a profile for Project Managers in the C and C++ domain, with 10 years of experience, or a profile for Java developers with 3 years of experience. These profiles can be assigned to projects to identify resources that match the criteria set.

Related tasks
Creating a system profile
Creating a skill
Creating a competency

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