ABSTRACT
You’ve completed the shaping and scoping process and provided clarity about what you are trying to achieve and the organizational commitment to it. Now you move into the start-up phase, another of the early phases. By ‘start-up’ we mean assembling the project team, defining the way you and the project team will work and together develop the project plans. Here we are not discussing the mechanics or technicalities of start-up; instead, the emphasis is on the project leadership aspect of this phase, and what the project leader needs to be doing. So during the start-up phase, the focus for the project leader is on three aspects in particular:
• formulating the approach to the project; • gathering the team together, getting it working effectively and doing
this fast; • detailed planning.
