The logic described above immensely simplifies the process of demarcation and definition of roles and responsibilities of 5-PATHS™ projects, as only five of these important project roles and their initials should be noted (memorized). After these, only the degree of accountability is important to determine whether large or small letter code (or a combination thereof) must be assigned for accessing a particular milestone or an activity is being performed.

The dedicated responsibilities of goal-directed PM approaches (and particularly the I.D.E.A.L.™ responsibility matrix concept of 5-PATHS™) can play an important role of the entire project management life-cycle. Why? For example, during the planning process - with an appropriate software tool – accountabilities can be immediately modeled and evaluated. Whether our project is balanced from human resources point of view... How? The I.D.E.A.L. responsibilities are not only to show the number of resources and the percentage of their burden! It also shows that important fact how much pressure could be on a specific human resource: too little or too much accountability should be assumed, or even the right responsibility was assigned to the right person. (Anyway, extra work or overtime does not necessarily mean too much burden – yes it could - but rather, the really big pressure means how a human resource is accountable! - eg.: to accept and sign-off a conceptual design, to make an important business decision solely, to 'activate' people not belonging to me, etc.)

We would like to note that the logic of I.D.E.A.L.™ responsibilities and the underlying theory are integral parts of 5-PATHS™ project management methodology. The name and initials of I.D.E.A.L.™ responsibilities have been developed in Hungarian and in English by Attila Lukacs, and are used in both languages seamlessly. Basically, it interprets and combines the principles of GDPM and 'SUMMIT-D' responsibility matrices originally developed by Coopers & Lybrand.