4.2.3 Reading material: Project Resource Breakdown Structure

Course subject(s) 4. Construction and Project Management

The following reading material provides you with a little bit more background information. We would like you to read the following Wikipedia page which briefly explains some basics about Resource Breakdown Structures:

Resource Breakdown Structure

A Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) uses the Work Breakdown Structure and the organizational structure of the Resource Breakdown Structure to link deliverables and/or activities to resources. A good instruction can be found at Washington State Department of Transportation website:

Responsibility Assignment Matrix

If you want to learn more about project management, then you can watch the following video’s and/or read the following articles.

A free online project management guide of the Washington State Department of Transportation, with some interesting videos and other reading materials, can be found on:

Project Management Online Guide

A good and often used guide for project management is the Gower Handbook of Project Management:

Turner, R. (2016) Gower Handbook of Project Management (5th edition), London/New York: Routledge.

In the following video explains the responsibility assignment matrix in more detail. It adds the different responsibilities people can take in delivering (parts of) a project:

Responsibility Assignment Matrix video

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