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Project Managers, Practitioners, and Professionals

By Jerry Bui

As I watch the e-discovery industry mature, I've observed a stratification of individual talents and their relative worth to EDD projects. There are three archetypes: project managers, practitioners, and professionals. A good project team will be staffed with all three. There's the gal who keeps the project on track, on budget, and within scope; the geek (with a faint, detectable glow of a halo around his head) who can deliver a soliloquy on the history of bate numbers and can lecture at exhaustive length on recall and precision; and last (but not least) the partner who, between negotiating the big deals, instills ethical and professional behavior in the team. A bad team, mind you, can still be staffed with all three archetypes. The difference is that a good team knows that they need each and every one of these role players. They rely on a mixture of every one's talents. A bad team will have individuals who have an overinflated view of their own contributions. They downplay the relative worth of everyone else's role on the project and have a heroic view of themselves. Whenever you're embarking on a new project, get to know the role players. This, even more so than the technology that's being employed, will give you some indication of the project's ultimate chances for success.

Full post as published by E-Discovery In the Trenches on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).