Project Sponsor Attributes and Responsibilities List
The project sponsor is your project's champion. This guideline will help you pick the right person for this important job.
View ArticleBusiness Case Planning Checklist
Formulating a business case and proposing your project to senior management for buy-in can be tricky. Don't dive right in and start writing. Begin with a solid checklist of guidelines to ensure a...
View ArticleMethodology Implementation Project Charter
This is a high-level example of a Project Charter for implementing a methodology, but the structure and approach will work for many projects. This example is heavy on risks and assumptions, light on...
View ArticleQuick Project Risk Assessment Questionnaire
What's the first step in looking at the risks you face in delivering your project? Before performing a full-blow assessment, you may want to ask yourself a few simple questions. This 10 minute, 27...
View ArticleApplication Development Risk Assessment Checklist
Building an application? This checklist outlines 52 potential risk areas in application development, defining low, medium and high risk levels for each. Classifying your project risk in each of these...
View ArticlePresenting Your Business Case to Management
Presenting a winning business case with the right amount of the right information for the right audience is the key to getting approval and funding for your project! Here is a presentation that will...
View ArticleStandard Business Case
Document a business case to persuade upper management to fund your project. Keep it short and succinct enough that the busy executive management audience will read and digest it. It should directly...
View ArticleProject Concept
Finding sponsors to back your project is an art. Make a compelling case for the project to gain sponsor support when you are pitching your business case to executive management. Here is an example of a...
View ArticleTips for a Successful Business Case
This excellent project justification guide will provide sophisticated advice to maximize the impact of your business case, making it accurate, complete and persuasive. In addition, learn some handy...
View ArticleROI Calculator
The attached tool has been developed to assist you in generating some solid payback data to be used to evaluate the return potential of your proposed method. Not only will it help the gods of finance...
View ArticleRisk Analysis and Contingency Plan Guidelines
No project was ever completed on time and within budget. Identifying risks associated with a project and mitigating them is a crucial activity of project planning. Managers need to not only analyze...
View ArticleRisk Assessment Summary Checklist
This checklist is a quick and dirty way of weighing risk factors against project criteria to discover level of risk.
View ArticleProject Sponsor Checklist
The project sponsor checklist describes ways for the project sponsor to provide commitment and project support in an effective, visible manner.
View ArticleVisionate: The What? (Part 2) -- Establishing the Collective Vision
Now that we've captured the sponsor's vision, how do we capture the collective vision?
View ArticleBPI and Scorecards: Perfect Partners
The trick to effectively using scorecards to monitor your success is in determining what and how to measure. Luckily, BPI gives you the perfect vehicle for driving that process forward.
View ArticleCost Leadership for Caustic Readership
To achieve business leadership, we need to have competitive advantage direction from people dedicated to the principles of cost leadership. While it may not get quite the hype that cost reduction...
View ArticleJuggling Projects with Forgotten Strategies
Many initiatives fail to deliver. How will organizations remain competitive and efficient with such troublesome statistics? Here are nine tips that can give you a better chance of success.
View ArticleSelling EVM
Earned Value Management is not just fuzzy math, but you need to help people understand it. The problem is not in the math itself, but in the difficulty of explaining EVM to stakeholders who don't...
View ArticleResearching EVM Readiness
Earned Value Management is recognized within the project management domain as an effective cost and risk management technique. The formulas are not difficult to understand. So if EV isn't difficult to...
View ArticleThe Project Charter: Justify My Project!
It scares this writer how many project managers believe that projects start with the planning phase. It scares him even more that their employers often agree.The project starts during the justification...
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