Human Resources Mgmt Processes

Question 1

Develop Human Resources Plan

Answer 1

(9.1 PLAN) Identifying project roles and responsibilities, create staffing management plan.

The roles and responsibilities must be agreed upon beforehand, because if there is a problem, people need to know who to turn to for expert advice or for decisions to be made. The staffing plan allows the project manager to know who is available for how much time during the course of the project.
These two questions of “what role will team members play?” and “what team members are available?” are answered in the planning stage.

Question 2

Acquire Project Team

Answer 2

(9.2 EXEC) Confirming human resource availability and obtaining team.

The first part of executing a project is obtaining the team members from the human resources department.

Question 3

Develop Project Team

Answer 3

(9.3 EXEC) Improving team interaction and team environment.

Here is the process that takes the “team members” and turns them into a team that works together

Manage Project Team

Question 4

Manage Project Team

Answer 4

(9.4 EXEC) Optimizing team performance by tracking member performance, resolving conflicts, providing feedback.

This process is where the “continuous improvement” part of the project, where you try to fine-tune the performance of the members of the team as individuals (by measuring their performance by increasing their skills), to reduce conflict between individual team members (through conflict resolution techniques), and for those conflicts that do arise, to create lessons learned to prevent similar conflicts from happening in the future.