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Project Management Orientation

Procedures

To gather needs:

  1. Read all project documentation, such as the contract, documents of understanding (DOU), statements of work, and any other documents that might also contain requirements.
  2. Interview the sponsor. 
  3. Prioritize or quantify the answers the sponsor gives you to your questions.  This analysis should help you determine the real needs for your project.


Interviewing the Sponsor

The sponsor will give you his or her interpretation of the needs.  The sponsor might also give you the names of other people to interview.  You can interview the sponsor and other people, or you can use requirements-gathering tools, such as brainstorming, the nominal group technique, focus groups, workshops, and affinity diagrams.
Use structured, unstructured, or semi-structured interviews to identify needs.  The interview process involves identifying each participant, and asking a series of questions based on that person's role in the project.

First, you might need to explain to the sponsor and project staff what you are doing, such as gathering needs, categorizing them, and establishing the requirements baseline.  You might also need to explain how that baseline is the basis for the project plans that you will develop.

1: Getting Started
2: Define the Project Team
3: Team Management
4: Identify and Validate Requirements
5: Create Decomposition Structures
6: Risk Management
7: Project Estimates
8: Project Schedules
9: Change Management
10: Project Control and Execution
Defining the Project
11: Project Management Review
12: Project Closeout
13: Project Management Tool Suite
14: Self-Assessment and Final Exam
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