Project Team Roles and Responsibilities

Revision as of 20:44, 13 February 2018

Abstract

Without a doubt the human role is an inseparable part of the project management. Hiring and involving the right people who will be committed throughout the whole project life cycle is of critical importance.^[1] Thus Organizational Planning and Staff Acquisition play an important role within project Planning Processes as their final output significantly effects project overall performance.^[2] The output consists of, among others:

• Identifying stakeholders
• Selecting a Project Team
• Assigning proper roles and responsibilities to everyone involved

The last one is a process of defining who does what (roles) and who decides what (responsibilities) and it is considered to be a solid foundation of every project to be successfully executed. ^[3] It should always link to a project scope baseline, hence nothing is omitted as well as just value adding deliverables are performed. This is why it is essential to clearly allocate roles and define responsibilities for everyone within Project Team already from the very beginning of the project life cycle, namely the Initial Phase.

This article focuses on the method of assigning roles and responsibilities to Project Team members and applying adequate tools to ensure it is preserved and maintained properly during the project life cycle. The objective of the article is to provide project managers with instructions and application-ready templates. For superior understanding, methodology described in the article applies to a medium size projects and refers to the leading pharmaceutical industry best practices.

Background

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It is project managers' role to build a Project Team and assign roles and responsibilities to its members. There are multiple reasons why project managers should cautiously

Planning Processes

Organizational Planning

Staff Acquisition

Roles and responsibilities assignment

Standard Project Team roles and responsibilities

Tools Application

Responsibility Matrix

Project Team Charter

Evaluation

Discussion

How to ensure responsibilities compliance

Limitations/difficulties

Evaluation

References

1. ↑ https://www.pmi.org/learning/featured-topics/resource Project Management Institute. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
2. ↑ Page 31, 1996 ed. PMBOK® Guide
3. ↑ Page 96, 1996 ed. PMBOK® Guide

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