Project Management

Intermediate Planning Steps: The Rodney Dangerfield of Project Management (Part 2)

Joe Wynne is a versatile Project Manager experienced in delivering medium-scope projects in large organizations that improve workforce performance and business processes. He has a proven track record of delivering effective, technology-savvy solutions in a variety of industries and a unique combination of strengths in both process management and workforce management.

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Part 2 of 3.
Read Part 1 of Intermediate Planning Steps: The Rodney Dangerfield of Project Management.
In the first article in this series, we saw how the responsibility matrix is used as a bridge from early planning (e.g., justification, scoping) to more detailed planning such as WBS development, resourcing and scheduling. This bridge will provide you with a more sophisticated approach to managing the workforce relationships that are critical for the success of your project. You will enter into the activation and control phases of your project with a minimum of risk. 

The responsibility matrix improves workforce relationship planning by helping you:

  1. identify and solve existing planning problems;   
  2. clarify next steps; and   
  3. anticipate and avoid project activation and control obstacles 

1. Identify and Solve Existing Planning Problems 
To see how to solve problems, let's look at the Product Development Project Example from the previous article. Remember, we have no specific employee names at this point and only general activity categories defined. In this hypothetical software development situation, we have completed the matrix to this point, adding "S" for those roles that support the activity, "R" for those roles that have responsibility to complete the activities, "A" for those …


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