Chapter 11
Starting Your Project Team Off on the Right Foot
In This Chapter
Confirming team member assignments and filling in any gaps
Developing your team’s identity along with its operating procedures
Creating systems and schedules for project control
Introducing your project with an official announcement
Laying the groundwork for the post-project review
After intense work on a tight schedule, you submit your project plan (the single document that integrates and consolidates your project’s Scope Statement, audience list, Work Breakdown Structure, Responsibility Assignment Matrix, schedule, resource requirements, budget, and all subsidiary plans for providing project support services) for review and approval. A few days later, your boss comes to you and says,
“I have some good news and some bad news. Which would you like to hear first?”
“Tell me the good news,” you respond.
“Your plan’s been approved.”
“So, what’s the bad news?” you ask.
“Now you have to do the project!”
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