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- Choose the best path for your project workplan
- The Project Definition tells you what your project is going to achieve. Your workplan tells you how you are going to do it. Your workplan lays out the step-by-step set of activities that are required to complete the project. There are a number of ways to create the workplan. ...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, workplan, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Project Definition, Research & Development, Project Management, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Software/Web Development, Management
- Technical articles 2005-09-06
- Build a foundation for project success with this definition template
- This comprehensive project definition template will help you develop a clear and effective document to guide participants and stakeholders through the completion of a project. The project definition clarifies the deliverables, the scope, and the overall approach of a project. It also communicates the project vision to...
- Tags: Definition, Project Definition, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Tools & templates 2005-08-04
- Build a foundation for project success with this definition template
- The project definition clarifies the deliverables, the scope, and the overall approach of a project. It also communicates the project vision to the other stakeholders for their agreement. This revamped version of our project definition template, created by project management expert Tom Mochal, will help ensure that you cover these...
- Tags: agreement, deliverable, executive, project management, template, vision
- Download resources 2005-08-04
- Use an initial Discovery Project to define very large projects
- Before a project actually starts, you must spend an appropriate amount of time defining the work and building a workplan schedule. For a small project, it may only take a few hours to complete this upfront work. A medium sized project might take 20 - 40 to define and plan....
- Tags: Discovery, Project, Project Definition, Tom Mochal
- Technical articles 2005-03-22
- Select and prioritize projects with a business case
- The managers in your company have a lot of work they would like to get done over the next year. This work is typically surfaced during the annual budgeting process. Usually, however, many more projects are proposed than your company has the ability to fund. Even if your company had...
- Tags: business case, Tom Mochal
- Technical articles 2003-12-15
- JAD sessions will speed up the project definition process
- The JAD technique can be applied to developing software, building a quality management plan, or even defining a project. The benefit of using JAD is to save your team from wasting days or weeks in project definition gridlock.TechRepublic columnist Tom Mochal receives dozens of e-mails each week from members with...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Quality, Tools & Techniques, Tom Mochal, JAD, project definition, JAD session, technique
- Technical articles 2002-12-10
- Use 'Big Three' documents to lay the foundation of your project
- Trying to ensure that your projects stay on course? This week, Project Mentor Tom Mochal discusses project definition, work plan, and requirements documentation than can give your project a solid foundation.Each week, project management veteran Tom Mochal provides valuable advice about how to plan and manage projects. Tom first describes...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Tom Mochal, Project Definition, Vic, finance, deliverable
- Technical articles 2001-06-25
- Replacement project manager must reestablish project ownership
- Projects often get derailed when a manager leaves midstream. Project Mentor Tom Mochal dicusses what the incoming project manager must do to establish ownership and get the project back on track.Each week, project management veteran Tom Mochal provides valuable advice about how to plan and manage projects. Tom first describes...
- Tags: Team management, Strategy, Tom Mochal, Mary, project definition, team
- Technical articles 2001-06-04
- Download our project definition template
- Meeting project deadlines is of utmost importance to project management consultants, but the planning you do before the project begins can make all the difference. Download Tom Mochal's project definition template to guide you through the planning stages.While aggressive deadlines put pressure on the project manager to start a project...
- Tags: Beth Blakely, project definition, Tom Mochal
- Technical articles 2001-04-11
- Establish a common understanding before trying to manage customer expectations
- It's difficult to agree on deliverables when there's no project definition in place. Project Mentor Tom Mochal explains that the project manager must have a common understanding with the client in order to manage the client's expectations.It doesn’t take much for a project to get out of hand. Clients often...
- Tags: Sales force management, Tom Mochal, Lindsay, project definition
- Technical articles 2000-11-13
- Kill projects when they no longer meet business goals
- Should you keep a failing project going when it's no longer relevant to the team involved? Why is a project definition so important to a successful outcome? The Project Mentor helps others deal with these common problems, and more.Buy-in and attention from all the key players is necessary to keep...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, project definition
- Technical articles 2000-09-05
Additional Resources
- Clarify project roles with this simple responsibility matrix
- In a large project, you may have many people with some degree of responsibility for completing certain deliverables. It might be just one person writing a document and one person approving it. But it's often more complicated than that, with several people having a hand in the creation and others...
- Tags: Person, Clarify, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Tools & templates 2006-06-08
- A Knowledge Management Framework for Project Definition
- This paper proposes a knowledge management framework for project definition of capital facility projects. The conceptual framework emphasizes project-based learning and the creation of group knowledge in early phase project planning and design activity. The paper views project definition as a collaborative decision-making process, and highlights the need for supporting...
- Tags: Knowledge, Definition, Framework, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Data Management
- White papers 2002-08-01
- Project Manager to Project Leader? And the Rocky Road Between...
- The "planning" phases of a project involve the crystallizing of project goals, the development of the concepts and technical requirements and planning for implementation. These activities typically require a number of iterations and re-runs to flush out the "customer's needs" and optimize project effectiveness. A definition of project leadership is...
- Tags: Leader, University Of British Columbia, Leadership, Management
- White papers 2002-06-11
- Quality assurance checklist for outsourced projects
- You need some level of involvement in an outsourced project to validate that the outsourcer will deliver within your expectations. This checklist will help you monitor the progress of the project to ensure all commitments are met. Understanding all the responsibilities that accompany an outsourced project can...
- Tags: Project, QA, Outsource, Outsourced Project, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Tools & templates 2005-07-11
- Third Parties Roles in Project Scoping
- It may be easy to get a client/sponsor to sit in sessions to define projects. The main issue is what to do when the project's vision involves 3rd parties like Banks, Telcos, etc. as part of the ultimate implementation/solution. Do you bring them in at these sessions? What about confidentiality...
- Tags: mikenwafor@...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-10
- Gain project approvals from the right stakeholders
- Procedures or Plan?Seems as though "procedures" is another word for a project plan in this article. The project plan has a multitude of sub-plans which contain many processes all of which may or may not be used in the project. The term "procedures" doesn't adequately capture the detail...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, fjames@..., project management, right stakeholder, Project Management Procedures, Project Management Plan, project plan
- Discussion threads 2007-07-11
- Define Project Scope
- A project manager knows that scope definition is an important part of the planning process. Defining the scope means breaking down the project deliverables into manageable tasks and establishing resources and milestones that can provide perspective on the project as a whole. By using the right tools, one can manage...
- Tags: Project, Microsoft Corp., Productivity
- Webcasts
- Define your project boundaries in the up-front scope definition
- Purchasing SystemOrdering and Analysing Costs for Project
- Tags: odoray2006
- Discussion threads 2006-11-29
- Definition Finder (exe)
- Definition Finder allows you to search for any word on your screen by just pressing the Alt key and highlighting the word. The program doesn't go to any Web site to show you the definition, rather the definition if displayed instantly next to the highlighted word. You also have the...
- Tags: Word, Definition, Definition Finder, Web Site Development, Construction, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2006-02-27
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