Executive's Guide to Project Management: Organizational Processes and Practices for Supporting Complex Projects

Complex Project Manager Use of the Complex Project Team Profile

The CPM is the primary beneficiary of the CPT profile especially using the data shown in Figure 3.3. Professionals with consultant and senior consultant skills can be important seconds for the CPM. For a complex project, requirements-gathering is particularly challenging. There are two team members whose skills in BA are at the consultant level. Those persons may be the ideal pick for planning and gathering requirements especially since the project profile suggests that the team is lacking in that area. While this is obvious from the figure, it may not be otherwise obvious unless the CPM has had previous experience with and knows the BA consultant.

The one characteristic not shown in the profile is the generalist/specialist composition of the CPT. For each relevant discipline the CPT needs members who are specialists and members who are generalists. This will be most important for those disciplines that are at the heart of the complexity present in the project.