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Welcome back.
It's November, Halloween has just passed and we're talking about Christmas and maybe even the new year. In all the hustle of planning for upcoming big dates in our calenders we realize that there's only so much of yourself to go around. Thankfully, there are others who can help out, if it's your spouse, your parents, in laws, uncles and aunts, nieces and nephews. Maybe you're hosting the big family Christmas party at your house this year, or you're putting that awesome photo album together from all the photo archives from family members. Or if you're really lucky, maybe you're organizing a family reunion/retreat for the holiday season somewhere down south. What ever the occasion, I think you're well aware of the amount of planning that is ahead of you. In particular coordinating the many people, their various skill sets, availability and passion or lack thereof.

In this installment of the nine project management knowledge areas, I look at no.7, human resource management. While many may not put this topic up in their top of the list of most sexy things to do in managing your project, it is none the less, every bit as important as something like creating a technical spec document. Come to think about it, I'm not sure if there's actually anything 'sexy' in project management period. Fun and exciting at times? Absolutely. Sexy? Perhaps not. But I digress.