Project Implementation

Project Planning

Review Questions

1. What is the project trying to achieve?

2. Why?

3. How will you achieve the aim of the project?

• What the plan should include

Click here to read more.

If this project is small and contained you may want to do a once-off experiment. Use the Experiment Template for this.

If the project is large you may want to create a Log Frame, a detailed Project Plan (or both), and a number of smaller experiments within the project.

Experiments and Sub-project Plans

Agile, Scrum, and the Lean Startup Method

• AGILE

• • Agile methodologies. See here.

• SCRUM

• LEAN STARTUP METHOD

See here for more.

The Lean Startup Method

Lean startup is a methodology for developing businesses and products that aims to shorten product development cycles and rapidly discover if a proposed business model is viable; this is achieved by adopting a combination of business-hypothesis-driven experimentation, iterative product releases, and validated learning.

Learn more about the methodology here or read the book (we have a copy in the office, just ask around).

Stakeholder Management

• Defining a Partnership; the difference between a client and a partner.

• How to manage a client or a partner well.

• • Managing stakeholders. See here.

• Project Manager Tasks

• Recommendations on Dealing With Difficult Stakeholders

• • When it Comes to Difficult Stakeholders....[See here].

• Tracking Work and Reporting

• • Needs more info

• Invoicing and Receiving Payment

• • [shouldn't this be in Budgets and Finance? Could probably link it]

Meetings

• Tips and Tricks for Meetings: How to Host and Get the Most Out of Them.

• • People need...[see here].

• Ways and Places to Conduct Meetings

Communication

• How We Communicate.

• Tools to Communicate Effectively

Team Management

Roles and Responsibilities

Monitoring & Evaluation

Communications & Marketing

Planning Documents

• Project Summary Sheet (similar to ODD "Project Bible")

  • See the project page example

• Project Plan [Doc]

• Experiments

• Timelines/Gantt charts [Doc]

• Budget [Doc]