Project initiation checklist

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What needs to be addressed in the Project Initiation Document (PID)?

Project scope

What business functions are in and out of scope?l

What locations are in and out of scope?

What are the project interfaces?

What business procedures are required?

What production operations procedures are required?

Will an Acceptance Test Plan and testing be required?

Will Systems Analysis be required, if so what's needed?

What training is required?

What documentation is required?

What are the critical requirements?

Schedule

When will the project start?

When will it end?

How many effort hours / elapsed hours? What assumptions are you making and how sound are they?

What is the end product?

What are the milestones?

What are the products of the milestones?

Constraints

What is the maximum cost of the project?

What is the latst project completion date?

What are the interproject dependencies?

Organization

Who agrees to this project setup?

Who will signoff the requirements?

Who will remove obstacles?

Who will accept the finished product?

Who will execute the project initiation?

What additional resources will be required and what are they expected to do?

Business case

Why do this project? What happens if we don't?

Why do it now?

How critical will the impact of the project be?

What could go wrong? (risks)

How will you avoid this? (countermeasures)

What costs are involved? (hardware, software, network, staff, facilities, other)