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Planning for Project Human Resource Management

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Project human resource management focuses on utilizing the people involved in the project in the most effective way. The people involved in the project are more than just the project team members, though they’re the most obvious.

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The project manager can’t forget to involve other stakeholders: customers, management, individual contributors, the project sponsor, and any other stakeholder unique to the project.

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Organizational planning calls on the project manager to identify the roles and responsibilities of the project and the reporting relationship within the organization.

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Reporting relationships can be internal, such as to management, or external, such as to a customer or community. The relationships and the procedure to communicate with these project interfaces must be documented.

Documenting Human Resources Management

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Because projects are often similar, the project manager can rely on templates to re-create the success of historical projects. Reporting structures, role and responsibility matrixes, and other human resource models can be replicated, and adjusted, between projects.

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The staffing management plan describes the process that the project manager must follow to bring resources onto a project, or to dismiss them from a project when the resources are no longer needed.

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The policies and procedures of the performing organization should be documented within the staffing management plan to ensure the guidelines are followed as management intends.

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The staffing management plan will also detail the policies of how the project manager can recruit project team members. The plan may also detail the procedure to procure resources for the project from vendors or consultants.

Involving the Project Stakeholders

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Throughout the project, the project manager must work with the project team to develop their ability to complete their project work, grow as a team, and focus on completing the project work accurately and on time.

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A reward and recognition system can help the project manager motivate the project team to perform as hoped.

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Special care to involve the project team must be given when the team is scattered geographically. The project manager can rely on face-to-face meetings, videoconferences, or teleconferences to promote non-collocated teams.

Developing the Project Team

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Ideally, the project is collocated and has access to a war room to refer to project information, research, schedules, and other project team members.

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The goal of team development is outstanding performance for the good of the project. Through training, the project team may increase their ability to work together and individually with a higher level of confidence, performance, and teamwork.

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The result of team development is project performance improvements. The improvements should be noted in an honest appraisal of the project team members’ effort and contributions to the project.



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PMP Project Management Professional Study Guide
PMP Project Management Professional Study Guide, Third Edition (Certification Press)
ISBN: 0071626735
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 209

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