Establish Roles, Responsibilities, And Resource Availability

Let’s suppose that you have narrowed the project down to two versions of the scope. It is useful now to consider what roles each organization will play in a version of the project. In order to define roles and responsibilities, you can employ the table in Fig 2.5. This table identifies each role in the first column. In the second column you enter the headquarters role. In the last column the role of the location or business unit is placed.

Figure 2.5: Roles and Responsibilities for an Alternative Version of an International Project

Often, everything will move along smoothly until you present this table. People start to get excited because they start to see the impact of the project on them and their people and other resources. You can use these tables to support the trade-offs in scope.

You are not finished yet. Given the roles and responsibilities, each business unit and headquarters have to define resources needed as well as any issues related to resource availability.