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{"id":1145,"date":"2011-12-17T11:51:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T17:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectprofessionals.org\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2011-12-17T11:51:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T17:51:06","slug":"staffing-your-project-management-team-part-4-%e2%80%93-acquiring-people-from-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projectprofessionals.org\/2011\/12\/17\/staffing-your-project-management-team-part-4-%e2%80%93-acquiring-people-from-the-market\/","title":{"rendered":"STAFFING YOUR PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM (Part 4) \u2013 Acquiring People from the Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

This McLaughlin & McLaughlin<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>s<\/strong><\/a> Project Professionals post is the fourth in a series of discussions regarding current challenges with the staffing aspects of your project management team.\u00a0 The focus is on the managerial aspects of human resource planning and acquisition.\u00a0 This post (like Part 3, our last post)<\/a> addresses acquiring<\/span> the human resources (people) or staffing.\u00a0 While the planning may be the most important activity or action in the process, the challenge ultimately is obtaining the people<\/span> to implement your intended execution strategy.<\/p>\n

There are many acquisition strategies<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 These acquisition strategies<\/span><\/strong> differ for various market conditions, organizational situations, project needs and other project variables.\u00a0 Markets that are very active\/hot [oil and gas, mining, natural resources, etc.] present unique challenges.\u00a0 Skill-sets that are in high demand [project controls, planning, scheduling, technical, etc.] present further unique challenges. \u00a0The project Human Resource Plan<\/strong> must address these unique challenges.\u00a0 Further, the project plan and schedule must allow the time to complete the acquisition process as well as the requisite training\/indoctrination.\u00a0 Finally, the project budget must realistically provide for the cost of these resources (often expensive non-employee persons) as well as the acquisition costs (e.g. recruiters).\u00a0 If this planning is not in place, do not launch into project execution.<\/p>\n

Please Remember<\/span><\/strong> <\/strong>\u2013<\/strong>Teams of people [not machines and not software] build projects.<\/strong> Consequently, if you cannot acquire the requisite staffing, you are not prepared to execute the project [at least as planned].<\/p>\n

Please Remember<\/span><\/strong> <\/strong>\u2013<\/strong>This is a team, not a group of individuals<\/strong>.\u00a0 Have you noticed that so many sports teams with superstars rarely win championships?\u00a0 Further, have you noticed that championship teams have few, if any, superstars?\u00a0 It is the project team, not the individual that must be staffed and developed.\u00a0 As they say, there is no \u201cI\u201d in team.<\/p>\n

Sources that are used in this post are:<\/p>\n