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Re-evaluate
The What The How The Doing The Reviewing The Harvesting
Business Question Business Question Business Question Business Question 4: Business Question 4:
1: Who needs what 2: What will it take 3: Can we do what Is it worth it? Is it still worth it?
and why? to get it? it takes?

Sponsor’s Vision Planning Meeting

•Sponsor interviewed Learning by Doing Launch
•Collective vision updated •SCORE model applied •Solution deployed
•Objectives, deliverable, benefits •Deliverables sized and Performance Review
as needed •4 Business Questions •Success criteria applied
described schedule mapped out
•Developing Addressed •Adjustments made
•Project Prospectus started •Life cycle chosen
•Designing, testing, building •Go/no-go decision •Turnover to customer
•Business Questions 2, 3, 4 •Timebox(es) agreed to
•Team requirements updated •Timeboxing
addressed lightly
•Technical and support documents •Trial and error
Collective Vision identified •Intense customer
•Scoping meeting held •Development tools identified collaboration and feedback
•Risk management grid drafted If go… Lessons Learned
•Probable future scenarios identified
•3-sentence project skinny agreed to Generating Results
•Project boundaries agreed to •Visibility
Post Meeting •Early value Change Assimilation
•Program breakdown structure •Project management Rewards &
agreed to •Infrastructure identified: •Fast features •Management redirects project Recognition
•Project imperatives agreed to as needed
----Methods and tools
•Back to Visionate to:
•Product vision agreed to ----Communications
----update sponsor’s vision
environment
-----Deliverable useful life (DUL) ----update collective vision
----Working environment
understood
Business Questions 1-4 ----Update stakeholder Benefits
•Financial requirements
-----Functional requirements and database
guesstimated Modified Tracked &
features prioritized •Benefits realization plan started
----Reexamine core team
•Project Win Conditions agreed to•Partnering agreements in place requirements Harvested
•WOW! factor identified
•Project uncertainty profile updated
Business Questions 3 & 4 Project Prospectus Updated ____________________________________
Addressed _
Stakeholder Database Started •Sponsor makes go/no go decision
•Project manager decides to Doug DeCarlo’s Method
Preliminary Core Team Picked continue or not for eXtreme Project Management™
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Project Prospectus Updated Project Prospectus Updated www.dougdecarlo.com
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