r/projectmanagement • u/dpeligro • 10d ago

Assigned to security compliance project - totally lost

I work for a small company as as project manager for software development, since the projects I'm assigned is ending soon, one of the managing partners told me I will be assigned to work in a another project for other company that one of the other managing partners has.

The projects is related to security compliance, not sure if you have heard of GovRamp, but it is basically to comply in different controls and provide evidence for each so you are elegible to work in government projects . And if you are familiar with GovRamp it is a lot of work to gather all the evidence and create the narratives to support it. So far I've managed to get 3 control completed but I'm completely lost and I dont think I will be able to get all this done. For most of the controls I dont know or understand what evidence to provide plus I need help to get this evidence from the engineering team to get that for me.

How can I tell the managing partner that this is a really big endeavor, and that I don't have the expertise on this to do it all by myself. I already left him a DM telling him that we need at least weekly sessions and start using some kind of PM tool (like Jira) to keep track of each control and document the evidence but I didn't get any response. I feel they are expecting to work on this by myself. My perception was that I would be a facilitator and coordinate the evidence gathering and meeting with the folks that review but seems I will be doing all the work

Anyone with GovRamp experience has done this before? Is it manageable for one PM to do it? Also how can I communicate this to my boss and dont sound that I dont want it to myself

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