In project management terminology, resources are required to carry out the project tasks. They can be people, equipment, facilities, funding, or anything else capable of definition (usually other than labour) required for the completion of a project activity. The lack of a resource will therefore be a constraint on the completion of the project activity. Resources may be storable or non storable. Storable resources remain available unless depeleted by usage, and may be replenished by project tasks which produce them. Non-storable resources must be renewed for each time period, even if not utilised in previous time periods. Project management is the discipline of defining and achieving targets while optimizing the use of resources (time, money, people, space, etc). ... A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service. ... In common language, a task is part of a set of actions which accomplish a job; the sense is that useful work is getting done. Task analysis is the analysis or a breakdown of exactly how a task is accomplished, such as what sub-tasks are required. ... Funding or Financing is to provide capital (funds), which means money for a project, a person, a business or any other private or public institution. ... Labour (or labor) can mean any one of the following things: Physical or mental work; exertion. ... Storage is the at least semi-permanent holding of an amount of something. ...

Resource scheduling, availability and optimisation are considered key to successful project management. Scheduling (from schema) is the process of assigning tasks to a set of resources. ...