Running head: Organizing HR Projects 1 Organizing HR Projects 2 Leading and Managing the HR Project Strategic planning for this project will require the team to create a long-term vision for the organization to have a centralized model of delivering HR services. The five steps of strategic planning for the current project include project charter, identify and meet stakeholders, identify risks, performing qualitative risk analysis, and planning risk response. The project charter is the first step that defines the roles and duties of the project team. It also gets used to highlight the vision and goals of the project and how the group intends to achieve the goals. The second step involves identifying and meeting the stakeholders, and these are the people who have an interest in the project, including the sponsors, project team members, employees, customers, and project managers. The current stakeholders for the project include project team members, project manager, the leadership of the organization, and employees. Identification of risks is the third step where the project manager will try and identify possible project risks and document sources of the dangers, the category of the risk, and responses. Risks may include a lack of support from the management, stakeholders having a negative attitude towards the project, and changes in management. The fourth step will require the project team to perform a qualitative risk analysis, which is the procedure of ranking risks for additional analysis or assessing their impact on the project. Planning risk response involves initiating a plan that will mitigate the risks to the project objective. Also, this means identifying the ranked risks and allocating resources and activities to minimize the risks. A project vision gets used to giving the project team a reason for contributing to the project. It gets used to explain the aim of the project, unite the team members, erase confusion, and act as an inspiration to the team. A vision and vision statement are isolated but linked concepts. The vision statement is more of a linguistic presentation of the vision. The vision statement for this project is “To establish a centralized model of delivering HR services that will improve service delivery." The mission statement for the project should be "To implement a cost-effective centralized model of delivering HR services that will be able to improve employer-employee relations and best delivery of HR services." The project charter is a declaration of scope, objectives, and the people who will be partaking the project. The project charter defines the roles and duties of the project team and also outlines the project goals and objectives. The purpose of the project manager is also limited, and the various stakeholders involved get identified. The charter document will be used as a reference document throughout the project and should summarize points like; the goals and objectiv.