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Project Objective |
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Project Scope |
What business functions are in and out of scope? What locations are in and out of scope? (attach a Scoping Diagram for clarity) What are the project interfaces? What business procedures are required? What IT operations procedures are required? Will an Acceptance Test Plan and testing be required? Will Systems Analysis be required, if so what’s needed? What training is required? What documentation is required? What are the critical requirements?
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Constraints |
What is the maximum cost of the project? What is the latest project completion date? What are the interproject dependencies?
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Current Issues |
Briefly describe any issues that will need to be addressed prior to or during the
project
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Project Sponsor |
Who agrees to this project setup? Who will signoff the requirements? Who will remove obstacles? Who will accept the finished product?
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Project Lead |
Who will execute the project initiation (e.g., Project Manager or Business
Analyst)
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Resources & Responsibilities |
What additional resources will be required? What are they expected to do?
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Start Date |
When will the project start?
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End Date |
When will it end?
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Estimate |
How many effort hours? How many elapsed hours? What assumptions are you making?
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Final Product |
What is the end product?
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Project Approach |
What are the milestones?
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Interim Products |
What are the products of the milestones?
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Project Justification |
Why do this project? What happens if we don’t do it? Why do it now? How critical will the impact of the project be?
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Risks |
What could go wrong? (both systems-related and user-related)
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Countermeasures |
How will you avoid this?
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Costs |
List all hardware, software, network, staff, facilities and other costs
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