Leverage your project manager’s experience when resourcing

CRM and ERP projects require a significant number of people with specialist skills. It's great if you have the time to develop these skills in house but it isn’t always possible and sometimes it is unnecessary or undesirable. Unnecessary because they will only be used during the project. Undesirable because it doesn’t fit in with you long term strategy.

The types of skill you may wish to buy in include:

Infrastructure specialists
Installation and configuration specialists
Migration specialist
Application consultants
Business analysts
Software developers
Testers
Test managers
Trainers
Etc.

So you decide to resource from the contract market.  Before you start resourcing the skills for your project. Hire a project manager and leverage their experience. They know which developers deliver and which ones to avoid. They have made their mistakes on earlier projects have the scars and more importantly the experience to help you resource the team that is right for you and your project.  Every project manager has an address book of good people who they know they can trust to deliver the project.

Happy Implementing!