Project Start-Up Toolkit

What is it?

A few key documents during project start up go a long way to ensuring overall success! A Project Charter, Stakeholder Management Plan and Assumption Log help to clarify goals, and outline responsibilities and expectations, guiding the project from initiation through to completion.

Project Charter FAQ’s – This FAQ document will lead you through the Project Charter process – what information to gather, what questions to ask and everything you need to consider along the way.

Project Charter – This document outlines the project's purpose, objectives, scope, stakeholders, and high-level deliverables. It helps define the overall direction and provides authorization to proceed. (8 page template and fill-able PDF template)

Stakeholder Management FAQ’s – This FAQ document will help you to identify project stakeholders and categorize them in terms of the level of power and interest they have and provide suggested management strategies.  Understanding who all the players are and the impact they can have on your project is essential to good stakeholder management.

Stakeholder Register – Identifies all stakeholders, their interests, and their involvement in the project and helps to ensure communication is managed effectively throughout the project lifecycle.

Assumption FAQ's – This FAQ document will help you identify all the details that need to be considered when completing the Assumption Log.

Assumption Log – Managing project risk is an important element to good project management.  Creation and maintenance of an Assumption Log is a key component to managing these risks. This document is used to record and track assumptions throughout your project from start to finish.

How this tool will help you

• Sets a clear framework for decision-making
• Helps to keep the project organized and focused
• Helps to remove ambiguous or items that are unclear
• Helps the project team to clearly understand all stakeholders and their involvement

Who is it for?

• Project Managers
• Project Teams
• Project based companies

Toolkit includes:

• Project Charter FAQ's
• Project Charter Template
• Stakeholder Management FAQ's
• Stakeholder Management Template
• Assumption Log FAQ's
• Assumption Log Template