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In this instalment of What’s New In the PMBOK Guide®-- Sixth Edition, we’ve made it to the fifth process in Project Resource Management (see here for Plan Resource Management, Estimate Activity Resources, Acquire Resources and Develop Team). Today, it’s the turn of the penultimate process in this knowledge area: Manage Team.
This process name has changed from Manage Project Team.
Manage Team Process
This is the fifth process in the Knowledge Area. We’re still in the Executing process group.
This process is all about tracking performance of what people do, helping them out, giving feedback, switching in and out new people as required and generally looking after all the team-y things to keep the project moving in the right direction.
Inputs
Team performance assessments, work performance reports and OPAs are still in. Human resource management plan is replaced by project management plan.
Project staff assignments has gone, and so has the issue log. There are some new ones that replace these.
Project documents: Team assignments falls under this category. The team charter is also a document you might want to consider as an input. As we have seen before, other documents like the issue log and lessons learned register can give you useful information on the types of things to consider or that might go wrong, based on past experience.
Enterprise environmental factors: In particular, HR policies might be helpful here.
Tools and Techniques
This section feels like it has been streamlined. Perhaps that’s because this process only deals with the people involved in the project. Other processes in this Knowledge Area talk about the non-people resources too, but this one is just about the team.
Observation and conversation, interpersonal skills and conflict management have been replaced by the general technique of interpersonal and team skills. This is far broader and can include other skills like negotiating and influencing.
Project performance appraisals, which related to progress updates and status reporting, etc, has been replaced by project management information system. There is information in the PMIS that will help you schedule the work, reassign tasks to the right person, deal with late work and so on.
Outputs
There is not much change in the outputs.
In fact, the only thing that is different is that organisational process asset updates has been removed. Given that this appears almost everywhere, I think it’s strange that it has been taken out here. Why could you not have uncovered something important that would change a policy or process, during your work managing the team? Anyway, it is no longer in, so watch out for that.
As you can see, there hasn’t been much change to this particular process. There is still one more process to go in this Knowledge Area, so next time I will be looking at the final process, Control Resources.
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Posted on: September 11, 2018 08:59 AM |
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