Selecting and Preparing a Project Team

The goal of selecting and preparing a project team is to deliver the right resources, against the right projects, at the right time. To achieve this, a project should be carefully staffed with team members ready to contribute at the needed skill levels for the given roles. This does not happen magically, it takes careful preparing and continual adjusting.

Staffing a project team should be a fluidic process of adding and removing people as needed throughout the life cycle. It typically involves gradually adding appropriately skilled people as a project gets defined; making personnel changes as different skills and abilities are needed over the course of the various tracks; and rolling off team members as they ...

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