Project Methodology - One Pager

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Bas Kemperman Head of Competence Center Business Applications| Hero Group Cuijk. Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

Hi all, this is my first post here and I hope you can help me with the following. I am looking for inspiration to create a one pager to explain the project methodology at my company. i would appreciate it, when someone can point me to an example. This is what I currently have. It would be great to get your feedback. https://ibb.co/qBszN8t

Posted: Sep 9, 2024 10:56 AM (Updated by author: Sep 9, 2024 11:03 AM)

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Keith Novak Tukwila, Wa, United States

Bas,
That looks like a relatively conventional process for a predictive/waterfall project where most of the work is executed by suppliers. For an in-house project, you could overlay the "systems engineering V" model for how the product is developed and tested.

Two immediate observations that come to mind are:

1) Is that the model you use at your own company. There are many different project lifecycle models that you can use for a starting point.
2) Your one-pager is all about the what, an explains nothing about the why. If your plan is to explain the methodology, I would emphasize the rationale for using that model in your particular context.

I often approach one-pagers in a roughly "4-square" format. If I'm explaining my methodology, I would probably divide the page into 4 quadrants and in each respectively describe: Situation, Target, Proposal (your graphical process depiction), and Rationale. That ties your model back to your strategic and tactical objectives.
Keith

Posted: Sep 9, 2024 1:00 PM

Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada

Bas -

Before you can create the "what", you need to understand the "who". Who is your target audience for this one pager and what are you expecting by giving them or presenting them this one pager? Without those answers, it'll be pretty difficult to propose a structure or theme for it.

Kiron

Posted: Sep 9, 2024 3:38 PM

Thomas Walenta Global Project Economy Expert Hackenheim, Germany

Hi Bas,

I like your one-pager, and I have seen several like yours, often in pitches of PMOs to establish standards and train people.

It shows the main flow of a project life cycle from the business view, as implemented in your company. Good.

For the content, these things came to my attention:
- is the project really starting with ideation, where the charter is put. I have often seen pre-project activities being run separately, even as a distinct project.
- I see the business case as input to initiation and decision prep for starting, so would put the charter after that (depends on what you mean by business case, to Keith's point, it should contain the why).
- at the end of project execution, there should be a transition tom operations, and before that, any change management activities, also often run as projects.

Posted: Sep 10, 2024 4:48 AM

Bas Kemperman Head of Competence Center Business Applications| Hero Group Cuijk. Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

Thanks all, for the feedback, this is really valuable. This is one slide in a deck where we would like to introduce a common way of working for the implementation of new of the shelf IT Applications aligned with the internal procurement and budgetting process. We would like to streamline the demand, facilitate decision making and optimize prioritizaton, planning and execution.

Posted: Sep 11, 2024 7:08 AM

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