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The best project managers aren’t just organizers – they combine business vision, communication skills, soft management skills and technical savvy with the ability to plan, coordinate, and execute. In essence, they are not just managers – they are leaders. While this has always been the case, agile project management places a higher premium on the leadership skills than ever before. For example, XP teams create and monitor their own iteration plans in collaboration with the customers. The customer creates stories (features) and prioritizes them based on business value. The developers divide up the tasks themselves as. | Paul Hastings CAPiTAL LEGAL J d 1 if í I Ũ Jr Í eDiscovery Project Management Guidance On Developing A Methodology And Documentary Tools by Mark Koehn Esq. Paul Hastings Janofsky Walker LLP Dharmesh Shingala Capital Legal Solutions for Georgetown University Law Center s Sixth Annual Advanced E-Discovery Institute November 12-13 2009 Washington DC 1. eDiscovery Project Management Project management is mostly about defining and following a process or methodology to accomplish a project. Central to any approach to project management is a focus on the who what when where and why of communicating with other project members and documenting project In many fields including software development project management methodologies are well-known and many are available for purchase and project-specific tailoring. In contrast electronic discovery project management methodologies are not 1 For an example of a relatively simple project management methodology visit Cornell University s website about its project management methodology including a guidebook and examples of project management documentation. 2 Notably on October 15 2009 a Google search on project management methodology returned over 225 000 hits a search on software development project management methodology returned over 6 000 hits and a search on electronic discovery project management methodology returned no hits. A Yahoo search on electronic discovery project management methodology also returned no hits. - 1 - Paul Hastings CAPITAL LEGAL J d 1 if í I Ũ Jr Í eDiscovery Project Management Guidance On Developing A Methodology And Documentary Tools We are not aware of any published off-the-shelf electronic discovery project management EDPM methodologies that can be purchased and tailored to fit the needs of a particular litigation. Regarding EDPM tools the ediscovery literature is well-stocked with checklists of questions to ask and information to consider and suggestions about software to help .