This document outlines a 7 step approach to project success including workshops to define requirements, process design, system specifications, estimates, a business case, a detailed project plan, and measuring progress against the plan. The approach involves defining project governance, designing processes in step 2, specifying systems in step 3, developing estimates in step 4, building a business case in step 5, creating a detailed project plan in step 6, and measuring progress in step 7.
Project Governance
Stakeholders (Project team, steering committee & business managers, IT team)
Roles & Responsibilities
Unpack the business requirement/s
Workshops & Meetings
Involve the right people (Consider the end to end process)
Ask the right questions 5W + 1H (What, When, Why, Wo, Where & How)
Take minutes & follow up
GAP Analysis (Process Design Powerpoint / Visio / Excel / Aris / Bizagi)
Current process
Interim process (Normally creates a base for the final solution)
Blue Sky process
System Spec
iDev0 Methodology
Screen Designs & Security
Sign off
Estimates for the business plan
Project Plan with detailed tasks
Estimated Costs
Estimated Timeline
Business Case (Project Motivation)
Project Initiation document which includes the scope & motivation for the new system (SWOT Analysis)
Return on Investment Calculation (Financial & Non Financial Benefits & How we measure success?)
Project Plan Milestones (Estimated Costs & Time)
Detailed Project Plan
Resource Allocations
Task Dependencies
Timelines
Measure Progress
Measure Estimated vs Planned vs Actual Costs
Measure Estimated vs Planned vs Actual Time
Measure progress and give updates to the business