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Introduction

As project managers (PMs), we rarely have the luxury of starting a project from scratch. Most of the time, when we manage a project, it has already been started by someone else before us. To successfully take over such projects, a project manager has to apply a certain discipline to make sure everything is taken into consideration.

In this guide, we will outline the most important steps that we think are necessary to pay attention to by dissecting our problem into five different levels:

This takeover process is totally independent of the methodology used to run the project (Waterfall, Agile, etc.) and indicates the scope of information to gather and actions to take.

As a project manager, you should aim to gather all relevant information in each of these categories as soon as you start the project. Some of this will happen organically as you meet your

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