Project Management For Dummies, 6th Edition

Chapter 13

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, stakeholder register, 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 manager 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!” ...