Finding sponsors to back your project is an art. Make a compelling case for the project to gain sponsor support when you are pitching your business case to executive management. Here is an example of a brief, direct project concept designed to lure sponsors into your camp.
This project financial analysis template includes four Excel sheets to help you make crucial project selection decisions based on return on investment (ROI), net present values (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR) and payback period.
This document gives you a view of a standard project lifecycle from a high level. This may be useful in the initial planning of a project. It compares such forecasting elements as resource usage, probability for success and allocation of key planning activities across the stages.
You're undertaking a project for Project Management Process Improvement--a big job. Use this comprehensive project initiation plan as a guide to justify the project from a cost/benefit and risk perspective and to help you plan each step to take to get the project up and rolling.
This document is a checklist for assessment of whether a project plan meets an acceptable standard. This standard will vary from company to company, so feel free to tailor this form accordingly to meet your needs.
You have a great idea for a proposal. Here's a way how to put it in writing to catch the attention of sponsors, potential stakeholders and your upper management.
Use this template to help select the right team members for your project and to assess the skills of existing team members before you prepare the team training plan.
This Excel tool was developed to assist project managers in preparing simple project/program S-curves by entering a small amount of data and presenting it in a professional report for project participants. The tool calculates activity finish dates, draws a bar chart of activities, distributes cost uniformly over durations and uses generated cost data to present a project cost chart.
Before you commit yourself and your project to detailed resourcing or scheduling, use this responsibility matrix to identify which departmental roles or individuals will be assigned to complete certain categories of activities. (This is a high-level version of a RACI Matrix)
Use this risk log and accompanying budget allocation worksheet to help keep track of all risks and their corresponding impacts, triggers, response strategies and contingency plans.
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