A resource management method (300) and a corresponding system are proposed. In the solution of the invention, an authority publishes (324) multiple rules, each one defining a desired target configuration for a category of subjects (without any information about their dependencies). Each subject retrieves (320 322, 326) the rules corresponding to its category in a random order. The rules are then applied (427 439) on the subject according to a trial-and-fail approach. Particularly, the application of any failed rule is continually repeated (427 448), until all the rules are successfully applied (463) or a deadlock condition is detected (451). In this way, any dependency is automatically resolved on the subject at run time. Moreover, as soon as all the rules have been successfully applied the compliance of the subject to the rules is verified (455 457) again; should the subject be not compliant to one or more rules any longer, an infinite loop condition is detected (466).