Question

A large predictive infrastructure project has been running for 18 months and is now halfway through execution. The organization has just informed the project manager that, due to a restructuring, the entire project will be handed over to a new project management team in three months. The current team holds significant undocumented knowledge about vendor relationships, informal decisions, and workarounds developed during the project. What should the project manager do FIRST to ensure project continuity?

Accepted Answer

Begin systematically capturing tacit knowledge into project artifacts and plan structured knowledge-transfer sessions during the transition period

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Wait until the handover date and schedule a single all-day meeting to brief the incoming team on everything at once

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Instruct each team member to keep working as normal and let the new team learn the project details on their own after handover

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Escalate to the sponsor to request that the restructuring and handover be cancelled to avoid loss of critical knowledge