Chapter 8Developing the Human Resources Plan

DOI: 10.1201/9781003201557-10

Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development. The general policy of the past has been to drive; but the era of force must give way to that of knowledge, and the policy of the future will be to teach and lead, to the advantage of all concerned.

Henry L. Gantt, M.E.

We have covered a great deal of the mechanics of the deterministic approach to project management (agile and critical chain being other variations that we will address later in the book). Now we turn to what I call the other project plan components or elements: HR, quality, risk, and communications. We will address procurement in a later chapter ...

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