Project Management Staff

When you need accomplishing a project, the first thing you should consider is how to assemble an appropriate team that can carry out this job. Process of the project management staff development is a continuous arrangement that is based on the following elements to work throughout:

• Allocation: sober & profound expertise to support decision on what kinds of professional assistance, skills and labor will be required at the project to accomplish its tasks, perform its mission, and to reach its objectives.
• Responsibilities: formal Roles entitlements, workflow relationships & official tasks associated with positions of the team members. This effort includes drawing the Staffing Chart to depict managerial relationships between the team members, and also clear-cut descriptions of Project Roles to avoid conflicts and duplications on duties.
• Plan: in order to engage the best professionals, you need to have a good policy of employment with adequate wages, social guarantees, appropriate insurance and other essential benefits. If your project is a long-term effort then it is necessary to keep control over staff retention and workforce planning.
• Selection: appropriate staff selection procedures will help you to screen all incoming candidates to select the most suitable ones from them. For this purpose you need to deliberate workable criteria and clear vision of what people you need at your project.

Project is in good hands!

Even if you engage into your staff the best ever technicians (or other field performers you need), the project can be easily screwed up by lame and incompetent management. Make sure that managers you employ really know trade, as a serious project is not a playground for experiments or to train novices. Therefore a plan is vitally important for those who are going to form up a powerful consolidated team of responsible administrators who will keep at their hands all controls over the working processes. There are several tools to maintain good level of the staff:

• Meetings – regular face-to-face meetings attended by project team members is a good way to coordinate and encourage their ways of thinking, vision, motivation, self-organization, practical tasks, and of course keeping on with a continuous team building.
• Trainings – is a good tool to support qualifications of project team members, to introduce their working packages and duties, the existing environment and provide other instructions to improve their productivity and efficiency.
• Issues – once some staffing issues are reported, they cannot  be ignored or postponed, as they might get extended or underlie more complex troubles that will lead to total staff’s inefficiency (like walkouts, discharges, etc). 

Job Scheduling Software: time is money, so don’t lose a minute!

It is necessary to accurately manage time and tasks of your employees to get the project’s workflow under sensitive control. VIP Task Manager is client-server software that can be used to establish a centralized database that contains information to form up staff timetables, to-do lists and working calendars. With a help of its three interface modes (Task List, Task Tree and Calendar) you can easily administer project matters such as tasks, priorities, costs, time, productivity, etc.