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and management personnel do the normal front-end screening of candidates to weed out unsuitable or unskilled
applicants. The acceptable candidates are then invited for peer interviews where team members assess the candidate
to determine whether the candidate will be a good fit for the team, and whether the candidate will make the team
stronger or weaker. Care should be taken to ensure that new team members will bring diversity of viewpoints and
fresh thinking to the team.

Different software groups, (e.g., the software developers, testers, and the SQA and SQC staff) will evaluate
different characteristics of the candidate. Everyone wins when engaging the team in the interview process.
The project team wins because they have already met and endorsed the prospective candidate. Candidates win 9
because they get to meet their potential peers, learn what the organization and project are about, and are better
able to assess the corporate culture. The project manager wins because the team members, who have the technical
knowledge, will ask the appropriate technical questions. Finally, all subgroups within the project win by learning
what characteristics are important to other subgroups within the project, thereby increasing their awareness and
maturity.

The following tools and techniques for acquiring a project team in Section 9.2.2 of the PMBOK Guide are
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applicable to acquiring a software project team.

9.2.2.1 Pre-assignment

See Section 9.2.2.1 of the PMBOK Guide.
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9.2.2.2 Negotiation

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See Section 9.2.2.2 of the PMBOK Guide.

9.2.2.3 Acquisition

See Section 9.2.2.3 of the PMBOK Guide.
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9.2.2.4 Virtual Teams

See Section 9.2.2.4 of the PMBOK Guide.
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Important factors when establishing virtual software teams include cross-cultural orientation and awareness,
readily accessible repositories for work products, a configuration management infrastructure and, to the extent
possible, in-person interaction on a periodic basis.

9.2.2.5 Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

See Section 9.2.2.5 of the PMBOK Guide.
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