From the beginning

At some early stage in the plan­ning of a pro­ject, decisions are made as to where the pro­ject work will be executed, regard­less of the nature of the pro­ject, this decision is some­times as simple as which office the whole pro­ject will be executed in and may become as com­plex as to involve decisions cov­er­ing exe­cu­tion in sev­eral countries.

Stay­ing with the gen­eral theme of this blog, which is to dis­cuss the com­mu­nic­a­tion issues asso­ci­ated with an inter­na­tional pro­ject exe­cu­tion model, my first ques­tion is, at what point in the decision to under­take the pro­ject is the option of an inter­na­tional exe­cu­tion con­sidered, dis­cussed, agreed on and con­firmed? and by whom?

Is it;

• A decision made purely by the pro­ject sponsor/sponsoring organisation?
• A decision made by a reg­u­lat­ory body that dic­tates where the work must be pre­formed for com­pli­ance or mar­ket reasons?
• A decision made for the spon­sor by the internal or external pro­ject deliv­ery team or company?
• A com­bin­a­tion of the above?
• None of the above?

Is the decision influ­enced by cost, loc­a­tion of or avail­ab­il­ity of skills, pre­vi­ous exper­i­ence with this par­tic­u­lar inter­na­tional split of work or is it driven by a mem­ber of the decision mak­ing organ­isa­tion wish­ing to “give it a go”

Hav­ing made the decision, what allow­ances or plan­ning is made to make the res­ults from the decision, and there­fore the deliv­ery of the pro­ject, a success?

Copy­right secured by Digiprove © 2010 Francis Norman

Related Posts:

• Com­mu­nic­at­ing down­wards in inter­na­tional projects
• Tele­con­fer­ence meet­ing com­mu­nic­a­tion problems
• Toxic expats, when good people start to go bad…

Tagged as: communication, international, planning, project, virtual team