OVERVIEW

Often human resources is the area considered least in resolving project issues. Many times, a "tool" solution is chosen when the answer could have been a better understanding of what is essential or satisfactory in performance.

Project Human Resource Management includes the processes that organize and manage the project team. The project team is comprised of the people who have assigned roles and responsibilities for completing the project. The incremental value added by the involvement of the project human resources correlates to their comprehension of current and future opportunities for and threats to delivery of completed work. As in baseball, if you can't see the pitch, you can't hit it! The same is true for the project human resources. The project human resources must have visibility to measurable accountabilities in order to apply their competency in a meaningful manner.

Project Human Resource Management PMBOK area of knowledge includes the following processes and deliverables:

1. Human Resource Planning

   1. Roles and Responsibilities

   2. Project Organization Charts

   3. Staffing Management Plan

2. Acquire Project Team

   1. Project Staff Assignments

   2. Resource Availability

   3. Staff Management Plan (Updates)

3. Develop Project Team

   1. Team Performance Assessment

4. Manage Project Team

   1. Requested Changes

   2. Recommended Corrective Actions

   3. Recommended Preventive Actions

   4. Organizational Process Assets (Updates)

   5. Project Management Plan (Updates)

These discrete process components integrate with each other and with other processes from other areas of knowledge within the PMBOK . In addition, these process components may impact other successor dependent program and/or project initiatives in a manner not visible to the project team.