PROJECT MANAGEMENT CYCLE:PROJECT HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

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PROJECT HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Processes

Project human resource management involves three processes:

1. Organizational planning

2. Staff acquisition

3. Team development

These processes deal with the management of human resources during the project life cycle. The processes are aimed at making the most effective use of people involved with the project. The temporary nature of project organizations, the multidisciplinary teams required in many projects, and the participation of people from different organizations in the same project require special attention to team building, motivation, leadership, and communication in order to succeed.

Description

The work content of the project is allocated to the performing organizations by integrating the work breakdown structure (WBS) with the organizational breakdown structure (OBS) of the project. At the lowest level, these two hierarchical structures define work packages—specific work content as- signed to specific organizational units. The managers of work packages are responsible for managing the building blocks of the projects. Each work package is an elementary project with a specific scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements. Organizational planning activities are required to ensure that the total work content of the project is assigned and performed by the work packages and integration of the deliverables produced by the work packages into the final product results is possible according to the project plans. The organizational plan defines roles and responsibilities as well as staffing requirements and the OBS of the project.

Based on the organizational plan, staff assignment is performed. Availability of staff is compared to the requirements and gaps identified. These gaps are filled by staff-acquisition activities. The assignment of available staff to the project and the acquisition of new staff result in the creation of a project team that may be a combination of employees assigned full-time to the project, full-time employees assigned part-time to the project, and part-timers.

The assignment of staff to the project is the first step in the team-development process. To succeed in achieving the project goals, a team spirit is needed. The transformation of a group of people assigned to a project into a high-performance team requires leadership, communication skills, and negotiation skills as well as the ability to motivate people, coach and mentor them, and deal with conflicts in a professional yet effective way.

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