I am new to the PM environment and know that there needs to be documentation up front of all new project requests. My questions are: Should I have some basic forms that get completed by the stakeholder, if so which forms to use, what information to collect up front?
Basically how much and what type of information should a stakeholder provide before any PM or IT involvement begins on a project? Saving Changes...
Read all articles in the series. Further, you should take some time to study litterature and other articles, discussion threads, etc. This is a serious subject and there is no easy fix here. However, you have come to right place. Here you will find most of what you need - the experience and mistake you have to do yourself. Read and absorb as much information from this community as possible -It's a brilliant. Saving Changes...
ALthough the only correct answer is usually: "It Depends!", in this case the answer is, don't let get past: "I want..." before a PM and a good cross section of the potential technical areas to be affected are involved. The sooner you get the right audience involved in defining just what it is that "they want" the sooner you have some influence in the outcome. Get in there and brainstorm, speculate, analyze, and decide WITH your customer / users / etc. Saving Changes...
