The P1 Resource Types view specifies the types of Resources, Technology and Competences required for the architecture. It can also be used to specify properties of Resources. This view collects together all the Resource Types in the architecture. It can also be used to identify Technologies and Competences and map these to resource types. Technologies and Competences can also be set against a timeline indicating when they are expected to be in use.
The P1 view may be used for:
Identifying Resource Taxonomies.
Forecasting technology readiness against time.
HR trends analysis.
Recruitment planning.
Planning technology insertion.
Input to options analysis.
Definition of performance characteristics.
Identification of non-functional requirements (input to SRD).
P1 Resource Types Actual Quality Requirements table.
P1 Resource Types Technology Forecast table.
P1 Resource Types Service Provision which is an editable Dependency Matrix. The Service Interfaces are used as the row elements and the Resources are used as the column elements.