9.2 Staff Acquisition

9.2.1 Staff Acquisition - Inputs

9.2.1.1 Staffing management plan

The staffing management plan includes the project's staffing requirements.

9.2.1.2 Staffing pool description

The following characteristics of staff must be considered during this phase:

• Previous experience - have the individuals or groups done similar or related work before?
• Personal interests - are they interested in working on this project?
• Personal characteristics - are the individuals or groups likely to work well as a team?
• Availability?

9.2.1.3 Recruitment practices

These will consist of policies, guidelines, or procedures governing staff assignments.

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9.2.2 Staff Acquisition - Tools and techniques

9.2.2.1 Negotiations

Project management may need to negotiate with:

• Responsible functional managers to ensure that the project receives appropriately skilled staff within the necessary timeframe.
• Other project teams to assign scarce or specialised resources.

9.2.2.2 Pre-assignment

In some cases, staff may be pre-assigned to the project. This is often the case when (a) the project is a result of a competitive proposal and specific staff were promised as part of the proposal or (b) the project is an internal servcie project and staff assignments were defined within the project charter.

9.2.2.3 Procurement

This is necessary when the performing organization does not have the appropriately skilled staff.

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9.2.3 Staff Acquisition - Outputs

9.2.3.1 Project staff assigned

The project is staffed when appropriate people have been reliably assigned to work on it.

9.2.3.2 Project team directory

This lists all the project team members and other key stakeholders.

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