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| This White Paper, the second in our series on this topic, covers the initial stages of a project, including establishing the project’s origins and the reasons for your involvement; identifying the mandate; preparing the project brief, and making the business case for the project. |
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At the beginning
Where did the project come from? There may be all sorts of reasons why you are being involved in a project. Below are just a few of them.
- Someone, somewhere in the organisation, has identified an opportunity or a problem and made a business proposal that the opportunity should be taken up or the problem resolved. That someone might even have been you! This proposal has subsequently been turned into a project.
- The organisation may already run programmes of projects – large-scale strategic change, subdivided into a number of projects designed to deliver that change in manageable chunks. This may be one such project.
- Your organisation is an external contractor or consultant who bids for and tries to win project contracts or assignments.
- New legislation or regulation requires changes to be made to your organisation’s activities or processes, and making these mandatory changes has been turned into a project.
- Your boss has seen something that he wants doing and has decided to make it a project.
- You have identified something you think should be done and want to initiate a project.
- Some projects just start when a manager says “I have been thinking; would you just ...”. Take care: it might be a project in the making ...
And so on, and so on. Clearly, the reason for your involvement and the nature of the project will determine what needs to be done at the beginning. If you are being assigned to a project that is already approved and about to start (typically, examples 2, 3 and 4 above), then you will need to make some sensible checks.
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