Simple Tools, Effective Tools
Simple Tools, Effective Tools
- The Project Opportunity Statement (POS) answers/defines/documents:
- Why are we doing it (business opportunity)
- What are we doing (goal)
- What will we create (deliverables)
- The impact on the company (expected business outcomes)
- A Project Initiation Workshop (PIW)
- Collects feedback on the business opportunity, project goal, objectives, scope, and timelines
- Achieves team and organizational buy-in
- Builds team relationships/dynamics
- A Project Planning Workshop (PPW)
- Gets experts to tell you what activities are required and who is going to do them when
- Allows continual organizational buy-in to what you are doing
- Project Status Reporting
- Is the most important tool in the kit!
- Communicates project activities
- Alerts key stakeholders to issues impending project success
- Traffic Light Reporting: Does everyone know what Red means?
- RAID
- Risks that need to be mitigated or assumed
- Assumptions that need to be validated
- Issues to resolve
- Decisions to document