An announcement was just made that your company is establishing a Project Management Office (PMO) and will begin expanding its use of project management to accomplish business objectives as well as to manage the business day to day. You are an experienced project manager and have been appointed to lead the first project out of the PMO. The project team has been identified and your supervisor has called a team meeting for tomorrow. You have 10 minutes on the meeting agenda to introduce the team members (none of who have ever worked on a project before) to project management. What would you do?

In your own words, define project management for the project team.

Explain to the team what a project is and how working on a project is different from working in a functional area.

Describe the top two things you think the project team members need to know now. Explain them to the project team and tell them why you think these are the most important.