| Project Charter |
The charter sanctions the project and provides a vision
and usually names a Project Manager. |
| Scope Statement |
Scope statements document stakeholders’ expectations
with what is included/excluded in a project. It sets baselines
for scope, time, and cost and serves as a contract between
the project team and sponsor. |
| Scope Management Plan |
This is a document that gets agreement on variances to
the scope baseline. It is used to control changes to the project
scope. |
| Risk Assessment Document |
The Risk Assessment Document prompts a project team to
think about all potential risks to the project, quantify their
probability and impact, and define how the project team will
respond to them. |
Communication Plan |
An agreement on how the team is going to communicate with
each other and all key stakeholders. Included are plans for
emails, status reports, escalations, etc. |
Quality Plan |
This plan determines an agreement on how much quality
to do on a project, including acceptance criteria. |
Work Breakdown Structures
---Deliverable decomposition
---Activity list |
These tools help the team confirm/refine project scope.
They help improve the quality of resulting estimates and schedules. |
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Mentoring Tools |
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Tool |
Purpose |
Status Report |
This is a standard blueprint for reporting on the status
of the project. |
Issue Log |
The issue log records and tracks all project issues. |
Project Close Report |
This document is used to close out the project or a large
phase of the project. It captures all lessons learned for
future projects. |
Feasibility Charter |
This charter is a more comprehensive version of the basic
Project Charter that includes ROI information for determining
feasibility. |
Project Groundrules |
These help the team function in an orderly manner, setting
rules for meetings, team decision making, how to communicate
bad news, and defining what success means for celebrations. |
Kickoff Meeting |
Here you learn how to organize a project kickoff meeting
once the Scope Statement is done. |
Technical Approach Alternatives |
These provide a way to document various technical approaches
to a project so an informed decision can be made. |
