Mastering Project Human Resource Management: Effectively Organize and Communicate with All Project Stakeholders

5. Acquiring Project Human Resources

Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, you should be familiar with:

• Importance of human resource management planning process

• Scope of human resource management planning process

• Criteria governing the scope of project human resource acquisition

• Factors influencing the scope of project human resource acquisition

• Mechanism of human resource management planning process

• Human resource management planning process flow

• Project team

• Virtual teams

• Human resource acquisition

• Staff assignments

• Resource calendars

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra.”

—H.E. Luccock, Former American Methodist Minister and Professor of Homiletics at Yale’s Divinity School

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