The Importance of Context and Relevance

Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at [email protected]. Andy's new book Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is now available.

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“It seems like I always get assigned the worst resources for my projects. Why do other PMs always get the good people?”

It’s a familiar comment, heard in many organizations on many occasions, but of course it’s also an unfair comment. I have never seen an organization that goes out of its way to give an individual project or PM “bad” people; organizations simply seek to balance the allocation of resources to maximize the chances of delivering project success. Of course priority goes to those projects that have the highest impact on the business, and of course some individuals are more experienced and/or skilled than others, but no project is set up to fail.

However, when project managers do find themselves with less experienced team members, it becomes all the more important to ensure that the environment the PM creates for the team is optimized for success. The ability of the project manager to mold his or her team into a high-performing unit that understands the project and each individual’s contribution to it can make or break the project. A large part of that is ensuring team members have the right information to be successful, and that’s specifically what I want to look at in this article.

The types of information
In order to ensure the right information is provided, PMs…

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