Model 14 - Resources for Pools and Lanes

Goals of this lesson

Learn how to assign resources to pools and lanes

and by that assign them automatically to each activity, that lies in the pool or lane

Often we need to model divisions of companies. These divisions mostly use the same participant(s) throughout a pool or lane.

Therefore in IYOPRO resources can not only be assigned to activities, but also to pools and lanes. Model 14 consists of two pools, with the upper pool using the developer as participant. That means, every activity in this pool needs a developer resource. You will notice that the Simulation Properties of the Develop External activity has the option Inherit Resources, that is checked by default. If you do not want an activity in a pool to inherit the resources from the pool, you can deactivate this option.

How-to

Figure 1: Model 14 - Resources for Pools and Lanes

Approach

Select the top pool
Assign it the participant Programmer (just like you learned it in the previous lesson)

Under the Optional Simulation Properties of a User Task you will find the property Inherit Resources
This option tells the simulation, whether the specific activity in this pool shall inherit its resource needs
(It is activated by default. Just uncheck it, if you do not want the activity to inherit its pool's or lane's resource needs)

Select the bottom pool
Assign a participant called Project Manager to the pool
Now select the top lane (Realization) of the pool
And assign it a participant called Programmer

Explanation

What we did was to assign a programmer to the top pool. Since the activity "Develop (external)" has its Inherit Resources option activated, it will always need one programmer to fulfill its duty.

In the bottom pool we assigned a Project Manager, which will be required by both activities. Then we also assigned a Programmer to the top lane. This means that the activity "Develop (internal)" will need one Project Manager and one Programmer to be completed.