Staffing a Project Team

Kenneth has 14 years of healthcare experience in government and private industry. Over eight years of experience managing healthcare IT projects, operations, contracts, and personnel. His work experience includes project management, contracts and procurements, data analysis, claims adjudication, business writing, and business process modeling. Kenneth was certified in 2006 as a Project Management Professional.

  Resource Management  

Putting together the project team is a vital part of making a project successful. Without the right people in place, the project will not go very far. You need to spend the correct amount of time at the beginning of the project reviewing the team and determining who belongs and who does not—and those are not easy decisions. You need to have a solid management plan in place in order to staff the project correctly. It will not happen overnight—and you need to be willing to make those tough decisions for the benefit of the project.

The Staffing Plan
The staffing plan should describe how you will place the resources into the project and how they will be managed throughout the entire lifecycle. Within this project management plan, you need to detail how people will be brought into the project, whether they are new hires or contractors, assigned from other areas in the organization or part of a matrixed organization.

The plan should describe how the team is brought up to speed, how it will be placed into the project and how everyone will be organized. Everyone should have a clear understanding of who is making decisions, who can help them work through any issues and who is assigning the work from a high-level viewpoint.

Evaluating Needs
When looking at the list of tasks and the schedule for the project, you have to perform a very careful evaluation of the needs…

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