I won't go into great detail for each one of the points above, as it would take too long. However, there is plenty of opportunity to soak yourself in it entirely in a class room setting by going to our course schedule for your most convenient time and location. Neither will I look at some of the more "HR" functions that I'd like to leave to the HR specialists, such as 'resource deployment management', 'skills evaluation' and the like. I trust these functions will be done by their respective groups. I'm going to assume that a team has at this point already been assigned to you, the PM.

1. Project Management Phases.
In the four phases of project management, initiate, plan, execute and close, we know from experience that the greatest amount of resource requirements will occur during the execution phase of the project.This is important to know, if nothing more than to atleast know when to expect to have greater resources made available to you and your project. If your RDM (resource deployment manager, who may be your PMO director/manager or an entirely separate group) has done his job effectively, then you will have the near perfect team at your disposal when and where you need them.