I'm currently overseeing a short-term project at my company. The project's goal is to survey a random selection of residents across the country to gather basic health data and collect biological samples for testing. The survey will be spearheaded by our client and our role is only in the collection and testing scope. We're just kicking off the planning phase. However, there's a bit of a debate brewing regarding the ownership of the field collection activities—specifically, whether these tasks should fall under the domain of the Operations team or remain with the Projects team.
My stance is that once the project is up and running, the day-to-day field activities, such as operating the logistics and collecting samples, should transition to the Operations team. I believe these activities are ongoing operational work rather than project-based tasks. My role, as I see it, is to guide the project through its initial stages, including a pilot run, before handing it over to the Operations team. After this handover, my involvement would be scaled back to merely overseeing the project's scope and managing the final close out.
Do you think this approach is correct, or is there a case to be made for keeping the field activities under the Projects team's leadership and management throughout?
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