Date: 29/05/2010 – 9 days to PMP exam

Project Human Resources Management revision was just completed. Most of the concepts appear as theoretical, but they are all practically proven by experience practitioners. If you involve in organization wide HR activities, concepts in this chapter would be very easy to interpret with real world scenarios. When you read through concepts, you must imagine yourself that you are leading very big division in the organization which contains 300 + employees; then you can find out the essence of activities specified in the Human Resources Management.

Important points in this knowledge area are…

• Develop human resource plan
• Develop staffing management plans
• Resource calendars
• Organizational process assets; your L & D department may provide programs for team building activities
• Enterprise environmental factors
• Conflict resolution techniques
• Leadership techniques; you might want to attend some leadership programs to understand these concepts in better way
• Negotiation techniques
• Observation techniques
• Understand when to update project documents and when to update project management plan
• What’s the importance of co-location? Project manager should be able to influence the enterprise environmental factors to get locations for his team at one place. This saves lot of time
• How to work with virtual teams?
• Project team offsite activities!!! Exploit the opportunities to meet different functional heads in these activities
• Revise concepts of organization structures; strong, weak and balanced...etc
• Revise roles and responsibilities of stake holders, team, sponsor, customer, project manager
• Understand all theoretical concepts specified in motivational theories

I’ve spent 6 hrs for 3rd revision and answered all questions at the end of the RITA PMP preparation guide.

Now, I’m just left with 3 chapters in 3 rd revision.