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Customizing Your Project Pre-Check
Drew is a former IT practitioner, project and program manager and software development executive. He is the owner of Davison Consulting and the author of Project Pre-Check, the stakeholder practice for successful business and technology change, an innovative approach that delivers major business and technology change successfully.
Wrapping up our series on developing a decision-making process to manage complex change initiatives, here are guidelines for customizing a project pre-check framework to optimize its value for your organization.
This is the final installment in a four-part series about a decision-making approach called the Project Pre-Check, which is designed to help project managers engage stakeholders and improve project performance. Part 1 examined stakeholder identification; Part 2 described a decision-making framework that included four domains and 18 factors; and “Part 3” described three processes and four principles for managing change.
Using Project Pre-Check practices generally does not require stakeholders to spend more time, effort and energy on a change. However, you should be prepared to place the emphasis at the front end, where involvement will have the greatest impact. You can help stakeholders focus on the factors that ensure project success and allow each organization to maximize its value:
>By enabling conscious, overt decisions about key factors that will influence how long the project will take, how much it will cost, what kind of quality will be delivered and what benefits will be delivered, when and to whom.
> By allowing stakeholders to control the size and shape of a planned change based on identified …
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