Compliance Programme Resource Plan
This is a practical guide to building a resource plan for a compliance programme project — the people and resources needed, when, and how they are allocated, adapted to the realities of achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance.
What a Resource Plan is
A resource plan is the people and resources needed, when, and how they are allocated. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Resource Planning. On a compliance programme project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Compliance Programme project
Compliance Programme projects live or die on achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance. A well-built resource plan gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how compliance programme projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Roles and skills needed
- Allocation over time
- Capacity vs demand
- Resource calendar
Compliance Programme-specific considerations
Tailor the resource plan to the risks that most often derail compliance programme projects:
- Evolving regulation
- Evidence and audit
- Cross-department coordination
Example
On a real compliance programme project, the resource plan would be shaped by achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — evolving regulation, evidence and audit, cross-department coordination — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.