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Initiate Project
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Initiate Project
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The Initiate Project activity is carried out following approval of the project's Business Case by the Project Approval Review. The activity sets up the necessary executive management and project planning teams, and also sets out the criteria that will be used to determine when the project has been successfully completed.
The Project Review Authority (PRA) is an organizational entity responsible for overseeing the project. It is strongly recommended that an individual be nominated as the PRA, with assistance in project oversight coming from a defined group of senior technical and business management staff from the project organization, as well as executive-level customer staff. A typical group assisting the PRA for a medium sized contract software project might include:
A project manager with appropriate skills and experience is identified and approved by the project board.
The project planning team, is the initial group of project team members who will carry out the work of the Inception phase. The planning team is identified, approved and assigned by the project manager, in conjunction with the PRA. The project planning team might typically include:
The final step in Initiate Project is to define some objective criteria that will be used by the customer to determine when the artifacts delivered by the project are acceptable. These criteria should be developed jointly by the customer organization and the project team, and may include the following:
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