Makes explicit the promises, commitments and resource exchanges within the organization. These commitments are normally not well managed except in the case of very large service level agreements. If a company is trying to encourage a culture of cooperation, failure to perform on internal commitments and promises should be viewed as a negative. All resources in the organization can have attributes such as skills or knowledge. Profiling strategies, initiatives and processes by skills usage, or a portfolio of people by skill usage can allow the organization to know where its knowledge-base is accumulating, static, declining or at risk.
Project budgeting Many accounting systems do no support project or process budgeting.
ARM's project budgeting can be combined with time collection and purchase order tracking to create an additional view of project and process costs in the organization. Tracking of project sponsorship and line manager involvement Often creation of a project is less difficult to manage than the training and deployment. ARM can address the consumption of time and attention of line managers when a project is introduced in addition to normal project time tracking. Tracking of milestone status and dependencies between actions Basic requirement for looking at rescheduling issues. Gate point review models have been researched to show earlier cut off of unpromising projects and higher success rate on launched products.