Profile of a Project

Posted on October 4th, 2021

Part of Notes on Project Management

What on earth to project managers do?

Pre-Project

Starting to think about business cases, justification, and vendor scrutiny: is the project viable?

Project Startup

Producing the initial documents as the foundation of the project development,

• Project initiation document (PID)
• Project plan
• Quality plan (how can we assess the end product?)
• Risk management plan (how can we assess the risks of creating the product?)
• Project organisation & administration

Development

The development stage handles preparation of documentation, site surveys and preparation; data acquisition and take-on; and system development.

• Requirement specifications (what does the client want?)
• Technical specification (translation of business requirements)
• Module specifications (dividing the project to separate concerns)
• Prototypes & wireframes
• System test results
• Acceptance methodologies
  • User
  • Factory

Completion

Delivering the deliverables to the customer. This shouldn't be the first time the user sees the product; wireframes, and later prototypes, should have been demonstrated to the user to attain feedback reguarding the end product.

This stage also includes:

• Staff/user training and familiarisation
• Acceptance testing - ensures the client is happy with the product
• System commissioning - implementing the new/updated product into production
• Customer takeover - operation is passed to the client

Operation

• In-service live running
• Warranty, support, and maintainers
• Enhancements
  • New features
  • Changes to existing product

Post-Project

Looks at what went well and what went badly using a post-project review report.