A resource is an entity used for a project, it carries a capacity : a number of days available to carry out an activity, and it can therefore be associated with a cost.

A resource may be associated with a certain hierarchical level, it may also have a profile (architect, project manager, developer...), and a type (internal, external...).

There are two types of resources:

• Named resource Assigned to a user identified and monitoring for the project. Users
• Generic resource: Enables work capacity to be defined according to a chosen axis (skills, team, external resource). The generic resource is used when the identification of a named resource is impossible or unnecessary (at the start of a project, for example, when the need for an expert is known, but the name of the expert has not yet been identified).