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Martin Nealon Logistics Management Specialist| Tobyhanna Army Depot Roaring Brook Township, Pa, United States
In your experience who is responsible for selecting project mgt team members? Have you or your sponsor ever called for volunteers?

Does PMBOK define where this responsibility lies? I couldn't find anything definitive. It's always been my experience that the PM or sponsor select team members, just curious if anyone ever took the volunteer approach?
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Martin -

As usual, it depends...

Internal open source projects or crowd-sourcing of work are both examples of the volunteer approach.

In most matrix or functional organizations, the PM can influence or recommend who they'd like to have, but the decision usually lies with one or more functional managers. In a project-oriented structure, the PM would have the authority to hire their team.

And of course, we have the practice of pre-assignment so sometimes certain team members are confirmed before the PM even arrives on the scene.

Kiron
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1 reply by Kevin Drake
Apr 17, 2018 11:35 AM
Kevin Drake
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To the dot.
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
It belongs to Project Stakeholder process. Here and article I wrote time ago and was published by the IIBA and the PMI as "best practices". Hope it helps you: https://www.projectmanagement.com/blog-pos...th-stakeholders
So, from your stakeholders idenfication and analysis, you have to clasify them in accordance to project convenience.
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1 reply by Kevin Drake
Apr 17, 2018 11:33 AM
Kevin Drake
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Excellent blog.. thanks
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
I fully agree with Kiron’s response.
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Kevin Drake Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Apr 17, 2018 9:54 AM
Replying to Sergio Luis Conte
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It belongs to Project Stakeholder process. Here and article I wrote time ago and was published by the IIBA and the PMI as "best practices". Hope it helps you: https://www.projectmanagement.com/blog-pos...th-stakeholders
So, from your stakeholders idenfication and analysis, you have to clasify them in accordance to project convenience.
Excellent blog.. thanks
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Kevin Drake Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Apr 17, 2018 9:04 AM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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Martin -

As usual, it depends...

Internal open source projects or crowd-sourcing of work are both examples of the volunteer approach.

In most matrix or functional organizations, the PM can influence or recommend who they'd like to have, but the decision usually lies with one or more functional managers. In a project-oriented structure, the PM would have the authority to hire their team.

And of course, we have the practice of pre-assignment so sometimes certain team members are confirmed before the PM even arrives on the scene.

Kiron
To the dot.

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