Acquiring resources, developing, and managing a team

One thing you will notice is that a lot of the content for these processes has been or will be covered in other chapters. Specifically, in Chapter 6, Creating and Leading a Team, you reviewed ways to overcome conflict and how to reward, recognize, and motivate your team. This section is mostly a reminder of the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs of the Resource management planning section and a closer view of material and equipment acquisition. Let's start with acquiring resources.

Acquiring resources

This section is another of those "easier said than done" sections, and it is also exactly what it sounds like, that is, the acquisition of resources. Previously, I mentioned that acquiring resources is necessary due to the need to bring in the remaining resources (such as people, equipment, and materials) that have been borrowed or acquired from other functional teams, or even externally via procurement....