See I think it happens sooner than that
Based on research (practical not theoretical) by Jiang, Klein, et. al (they have had lots of team members in their research) in project management of IT projects. They looked at a lot of things from the Kick-off forward. In fact, I was in correspondence with Dr. Klein and my research is front ending his based on his suggestions for future research.
They found that pre-partnering before kick-off could influence project outcomes in that PM's are rarely included until kick-off or later. My goal is to explore what happens on projects before kickoff and its relationship, if any, to the project outcomes.
Kick-off is too late for being able to define what resources you will need. I know this from experience. We are now out of money, don't have the resources we need, and our deadline is fast approaching. This on the project I am on because the right people were not included upfront and the proper pre-partnering activities didn't occur. At least that is my hypothesis.
