Lesson 03: Project timeline
Quiz
- What is the first role appointed to a project?
- What role is first appointed by the project executive to assist with the pre-project activities?
- What are some good questions to ask about a new project to see if the project is worth doing?
- Which document provides a brief overview of the project at the end of the pre-project phase?
- Who decides to continue to the Initiation Stage or not?
- Is creating a detailed project plan for the whole project in the initiation (planning) stage recommended?
- What is the name of the document created at the end of the initiation stage where we add the information gathered during the initiation stage?
- Why is breaking the project into stages a good idea?
- When is an excellent time to create the stage plans?
- Who hands out work to the team managers?
- What is usually done at the end of each stage in the ‘managing a stage boundary’ process?
- Which role prepares the project for closure and decides to close the project?
- What happens to the products created by the project during the closing a project activities?
- The project executive is appointed by the business level
- The project executive role appoints the project manager.
- Some good questions are: how much money, how long it takes, what type of people we need, how we can produce it, how risky it is, and what is the expected return on that investment?
- The project brief provides an overview of what we know about the project.
- The project board reviews the ‘project brief’ and checks whether the project makes sense. If the idea seems OK, the project board will permit the project manager to proceed.
- Creating a detailed project plan is not recommended as we usually can’t plan the far future in detail. Instead, it is best to create a high-level project plan for the whole project, and more detail can be added in the following stages.
- This information from the initiation stage is packaged in the “Project Initiation Documentation” (PID).
- Breaking the project into stages makes it easier to focus and manage. Each stage will have a stage plan which details the deliverables to focus on.
- The project should create a relatively detailed plan for each stage before it starts.
- The project manager will contact team managers to arrange and monitor the work in defined packages.
- The project manager will report on the performance of the current state and plan the next stage, as well as update the project plan and business case with time and cost information.
- The project manager prepares for the project closure, and the project board decides to close the project.
- The products created by the project (project output) will be handed over to the customer.
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