Direct versus centralized staffing models

As a practice manager, director, program manager, operations manager, or operations officer, you are undoubtedly going to have interaction with the Project Operations system. Depending upon your resourcing models, you may get directly involved in resourcing, or this may be handled through a resource manager. Following are some key differences:

Table 6.1 – Differences between direct staffing and centralized staffing model.

In both models, we are placing team members on a project to perform work. In a direct model, this is performed through institutional knowledge of a person or people. In a centralized model, this is performed with systems, databases, and team member recommendations. For either approach, we will need to review the overall governance related to staffing.