Project Checklist
Who?
- Who is ultimately responsible for the project
- Who is the primary Contact for coordinating team members and liaising with 3-rd parties
- Who are the key project team members and what are their roles
- Who are the end users that this being implemented. Ensure representatives of each business unit have input and ownership within the project.
- Who and how will communication to all stake holders, end-users be performed.
Why?
- What is the ultimate goal of this project
- How are we going to measure the project success?
- How are we going to align this project to the organisations business plans, mission/vision and KPIs
When?
- When is the project due
- What are the key milestones and dates
- Are there any critical dates that must be met. For example, current system subscriptions date expiring.
- Are any of the key team members/business users going on annual leave, or only work certain days of the week.
How?
- Project Planning
- User Stories
- Test Scenarios/Scripts
- Testing
- Training plans and execution
- Sandbox to Production migration
- Go-live planing
- Data Migration
- Post go-live support