IT Security Project Management Handbook

You might want to organize your project by the topic areas we ve defined so that you have subteams dedicated to: devices and media, topologies, IDS/IPS, and system hardening. You could choose to parse it out differently, or you might have the whole team, if it is small, work through each stage of the project plan together. It s up to you, and it s certainly somewhat dependent on the size of your company, the size of the project, and the size of your IT staff. Be sure that everyone is clear about what their roles are within the team and within the project. Organizing your team will provide the necessary structure for the team to be productive. Since we re assuming you ve managed a lot of projects (or have read up on your project management skills recently), we won t delve into the details of organizing this project except to make one note: The work in the various segments of this project overlaps a lot, and if your project and team are not well organized, you re going to have people working at cross-purposes and creating a big mess. Keep the project and your team organized to avoid this scenario.