Typically before a team is formed, a few core individuals go through the early stages of working with project sponsor(s) to quantify the problem or opportunity and establish an initial vision for a solution. As more information is learned and the effort seems worthy of pursuing, other key individuals join the team to refine the vision while constricting it into an achievable project scope. As the initial solution concept(s) becomes clearer, additional resources are solicited to help further refine project goals, assumptions, risks, and constraints. The team starts to form initial high-level requirements and puts forth a few options and approaches to implementing a solution. At this point, all advocacy groups should be represented on the team. The team is starting to work through defining detailed roles and responsibilities for the team as well as identifying any skills gaps that would necessitate bringing on additional people or that might justify replacing existing team members. Overall roles and responsibilities for the team during an Envision Track are described in Table 7-1.
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