Other Planning - Human Resource Planning

Human Resource Planning

• Human resources planning will address issues such as defining roles and responsibilities, reporting structure and acquisition of the staff
• Covers organizational planning and staff acquisition

Organizational Planning

• Organizational planning provide information on the relationship between all stakeholders
• Promote better understanding and clarity between stakeholders/team member
• Accomplished in the following ways:
• Roles and responsibility – defines the roles and responsibilities of each member
• Project organization chart – provide an overview of who is involved in the project and the reporting structure

Roles and Responsibility

• Specifies who is responsible for what, so as to avoid misunderstanding

Project Organizational Chart



Staff acquisition

• Staff acquisition refers to the process of getting people assigned to the
  project
• Before a Project Manager starts got get staff for the job, he/she has to determine the skills requirement of the staff needed first (e.g. programmer with visual basic experience)

Negotiation for staff

• After the job requirements are finalized, staff can be obtain via
• Interviewing people from outside the organization
• Negotiating with Functional Managers from other internal departments

Internal staff

• Sometimes, a company might have people with the required skill available to do the project. In such situation:
• Project Manager has to approach the manager whom the potential team member is reporting to
• Negotiating with Functional managers from other internal departments (e.g. software team, technical support department)
• Communicate to the functional manager the skill set required of the staff that is needed from him or her
• Need to convince the functional manager the importance of the staff to the project

Source: PMP, Prince2