Human Resources

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Human Resources

• Software Project Organizations
• Recruiting and Hiring
• Bringing People on Board

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A Look at Software Project Organizations

• Do not rush into actual hiring and staffing until
  you have an idea of the organizational structure
• may revisit the plan to see
• timing of needs
• financial viability
• market condition
• personal and people style
• There are many forms and no one correct
  structure

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Software Project Environment Roles
Architecture
Process/Methodology/ and Tools
Product Strategy Business
Analysis Design Implement
QA Testing
Integrate Configuration Management Packaging
User Customers
Customers Service
Project Management Control
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One can generate many different organizational
structures from this
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Some Questions for Organizations

• Does the project require all the different
  organizational parts ?
• Do we have to do everything ourselves?
• outsource
• partnership
• temporary assignments
• Do we need to be physically together?
• co-locate
• remote-location

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Which parts may be ignored?
Which parts will be in-sourced and
out-sourced ?
Which parts need to be co-located and where ?
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Small Software Development Organization
Project Manager
Lead Designer
Applications engineer
- applications functionality based -
programming (technical) skills based
. . .
Applications engineer
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Recruiting and Hiring

• Clear definition of the positions
• definition of the tasks expected to be performed
• Clear definition of qualification needed
• general technical and/or applications skill(s)
• specific technical and/or applications skill(s)
• non-technical skill(s)
• specific non-technical and interpersonal skill(s)
• communications listening, speaking, presenting,
  etc.
• problem solving individual, group, trusting
• etc.
• personal traits
• work habit
• motivation and goals
• etc.
• Define the range of compensation

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Recruiting and Hiring (cont.)

• Solicit candidates
• via professional recruiter, in-house, etc.
• Initial screening of candidates
• resume
• phone
• interviews
• rank the candidates and narrow the field
• Final screening of candidates
• follow-up activities (interview, reference check,
  etc.)
• decision on and approval of final choice

All of these are based on position definition,
qualification definition, and compensation
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Actual Hiring

• Make the informal offer
• Over the phone (e-mail ?)
• May be done by project manager, recruiter, or
  personnel
• Provide position description, compensation,
  expectations, etc.
• ask for feedback
• Formal Offer
• in written form
• ask for written response within a timeframe
• etc.

What do you think?
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Bringing the Person On-Board

• Ensure the following are set
• personnel compensation, insurance, benefits,
  etc.
• facilities office, furniture, network, phone,
  etc.
• tools PC, laptop, software, process, etc.
• Plan the activities
• first day of introductions of people and places
• reading materials and why important
• start on a project (may be pseudo-project)
  immediately