The approach to plan, document and deliver projects has been successfully proven over time by many organizations, both military and commercial. The idea of utilizing a repeatable method, especially in the use and reuse of templates, has proven to be invaluable to those successful organizations
Listed here are areas of customizable templates that free managers from the time-consuming process of having to "reinvent the wheel" from one project to the next. Click on each button to see the templates in each category. You can purchase all of these templates as a package or you can 'cherry pick' or custom select only those templates needed for the size of your project whether small, medium or large in size and complexity.
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Project Control and Product Control
Each Piece of work is accompanied by a deliverable document:
•If you can think it and perform it, you can document it.
•Information becomes ¡®Document Centric¡¯ as opposed to ¡®Individual Centric"
Document deliverables are broken down into two categories: Project Control & Product Control.
Project Control involves documenting all of those management activities that control how a project is managed Product Control is documenting everything about the specific product or service.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONTROL
The Project is controlled by a Project Manager (PM) who must take the Project Charter/SOW an break it down into manageable pieces. For a customer, this means formalizing it into a contract that adds Legal Terms and Conditions (T's & C's). Once the Project Charter (internal customer) or Contract (external customer) is signed, details must be addressed about Finance activities and detailed planning activities
The PM is guided by a Project Plan. The Project Plan is the detailed planning that was described at a high level in the Project Charter or SOW. That plan describes the Who, What, When, Where and Why of the Project.
Major items include:
Organization Chart
Organizational Roles and Responsibilities
Schedules
Communications
Meetings
Status and Issue reporting
Change Control
PRODUCT CONTROL
Documentation for Product Control is concerned with all aspects of the product. Any aspect from the business area that may require an phone system, better web presence, inter-departmental collaboration tools, etc., deal directly with specifying a product or technology that may not exist yet or is currently used, and the recommendation and technology life cycle that follows.
For example, if a business is growing and needs to expand it's phone system in a number of new locations, the overall strategy may be to move to a converged voice & data platform. A cost/benefit analysis would be conducted that would look at current and proposed architectures affecting voice and data networks as well as some hardware (client and server) and software (custom or COTS) such as the use of softphone technology.
