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When joining a project that has already started or when tasked to review an existing project, a Project Manager is faced with a number of challenges.

These primarily relate to not having been with the project team from the beginning and, therefore, not having been part of the planning process.

Many other decisions have also been made, some explicit, some implicit. This leads to the first challenge that the new PM has—what is the true status of the project? 

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