An excellent idea that is too far outside of your current project's scope may warrant a project of its own, or inclusion in the next phase or a project. Be sure to keep it alive by parking it in this list of opportunities for review.
The purpose of an impact analysis is to evaluate the effects, both pro and con, of an item under consideration—anything from solutions to a stated problem to a pending organizational change. In order to be sure that the team understands all the ramifications of a possible change and not just the obvious ones, it's important to consider the situation from multiple perspectives.
There are many ways to record what has happened in a day. This Excel workbook records activities/events/incidents as they occur throughout a workday. At the end of the day, the diary is updated to an Incidence Log for review at the end of a period
How well are your team members performing their project responsibilities? Use this assessment form to keep them apprised.
Where exactly are we on this project, and are we on track? Status from each team member, please!
Looking for a better way to understand and apply the earned value concept and S-curves efficiently and effectively? Use this template in conjunction with the Earned Value: Monitoring Projects More Effectively article, which illustrates a better practice for applying earned value to analyze and report project schedule and cost data quickly and accurately.
Improved deliverable! Who am I? Where do I fit in the scheme of things? These soul-searching philosophical questions can be answered by reading Schopenhauer or by looking at your enterprise's organization chart. Here's a typical project team structure chart for an interactive web development project, along with glossary pages of who does what.
Now more than ever, it's challenging to schedule meetings that cater to workers in multiple time zones. The International Meeting Planner helps you choose the optimal time for your international meetings based on the number of attendees—and the local time—in each time zone. The red-amber-green color coding shows you (and the team) at a glance how friendly (or unfriendly) a suggested meeting time is for up to nine time zones.
One way to use a requirements traceability matrix is to trace the relationship between categories of requirements. An Inter-Requirements Traceability Matrix can be used to capture this information.
Brush up on your questions before interviewing that next candidate using this sample list.
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