Background: Sydney was a newly hired project manager at aconsulting firm. She has previous experience working on projectteams, but had never led a project on her own. She has only beenwith the firm for two weeks and has spent a week of that time inonboarding. Her manager, the head of operations, has just assignedher to a rather large project. The project is to evaluate thecurrent processes in use within the organization specificallyfocused in two areas: new service development and clientengagement. Sydney was told to select who she needed to work on theproject and reach out to the managers of both groups to get theproject started. The Problem: While excited about the opportunity,Sydney realized she had a few challenges ahead: • She has had notime to establish relationships within the organization • Sherealized that it may be difficult to engage the departments in theinitiative given the project she was asked to lead • She wasconcerned about selecting team members when she did not yet knowmuch about the others in the organization (their skills andknowledge and expertise) • She knew very little about theorganization outside of what she learned in the onboarding programand her research when she was applying for the project manager roleSydney needed to start the project fairly soon. She didn’t have theluxury of taking time to build relationships and get to know peoplebefore the project had to begin
Question: How could resources be determined?
