So you’ve got all your numbers together, a plan written, schedule laid out and it’s time to begin the project. Before you start, you need to make sure you can answer 10 questions:
- How will you know you are done?
- What activities and deliverables are NOT included?
- What assumptions are you making about the project team?
- What assumptions are you making about the actions of others?
- How did you derive the total effort?
- How did you derive the total schedule?
- How did you determine the correct allocation of effort and time between tasks?
- What would be the cost impact of accelerating the schedule by 25%?
- What are the risk factors that would cause the schedule to slip or the costs to overrun?
- What metrics will we use to quantify and track progress?
Make sure you can answer all the questions before starting implementation. Successful projects are not successful because they did not run into problems, but because they anticipated the problems and overcame them.
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