Organizing a Project Team: -

Assessing internal scales

If you have an understanding of what your team members are capable of doing, the process of
assigning tasks within the WBS and creating the project plan will go much easier for you.

creating a team
As we deal with multiple individuals, we will discover their personalities, their ambitions, and their
motivations.
Interviewing Potential Team Members
Why You Need Interviews?
How to Interview?
When interviewing potential team members, youll need a job description for each open team
position.
A job description is needed for two reasons:
So that you may share with the prospect what role needs to be filled.
So that you can focus on the attributes of the ideal team member

Building Relationships
Defining Project Manager Power
Expert
Reward/Penalty
Formal
Coercive
Referent

Managing team issues
Most disagreements in IT project management happen when two or more people feel very passionate
about a particular IT topic.
Two developers on a project get upset with each other about the way an application is created.

Resources procurement.
Before we can start building our project team, we need to know what resources we need for the
project to be successful.
Recall that resources are:
Materials
Facilities
Tools
Equipment
especially people.



















Preparing and Implementing the project plan

a. Defining the project schedule
The project schedule defines several things for the project manager and the project team are
as follow:
What the project activities are that need to be completed
How long the project activities will take to complete
When the project activities will need to happen and in what order
What resources are needed for the project activities and when the resources will be
needed
How the project schedule can be adjusted, compressed, analyzed, or manipulated for
the best possible outcome for the project
How the schedule will be monitored and controlled

A project schedule should be a reflection of the WBS, the accumulation of all of the
work packages within the project, and the assignment of resources for each task.

b. Project network diagram creation and analysis

- A PND visualizes the flow of work from conception to completion.
- PND provide detailed info on work units and allow project managers to analyze tasks,
resources, and the allotted time for each task.
- Network diagrams are ideal for these situations:
- Detailed project planning
- Implementation tracking
- Contingency plans
- Resource control



- Project constraints
There are some types of constraints:
- Logical Constraints
- Hard Logic
- Hard logic describes the matter-of-fact order of activities.
- Soft Logic
- soft logic is when the project manager decides to do tasks in a
particular order based on experience, conditions in the project, time,
or other reasons.
- Technical Constraints
- Organizational Constraints

- Tracking project progress and financial obligations
- Decision Trees