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Idea

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Gate 1: Create a Vision?
Explore the Background
Search and Test Hypotheses
Idea Chosen
Develop Product Vision
Develop Road Map
Collect Requirements
Develop Technical Product Vision
Define Scope
Approve Vision

Research

8

Gate 2: Conduct a Research?
Choose and Approve Research Methods
Macro Factors Analysis
Customers Needs and Unique Selling Proposition
Competitive Analysis and OSINT
Formulate Competitive Marketing Strategy
Elaborate Technical Product Vision
Project Launch Decision and Strategy Approval

Estimate

10

Gate 3: Calculate Costs and Benefits?
Strategy and Resources Inputs
Estimate Road Map
Startup Investment Analysis
Production and Operations Plan
Profit Forecast and Sales Plan
FinPlan P and L, Cashflow, Balance, Fin. Indicators
Business Case
Benefits Management Plan
Project Implementation Decision

Start

11

Gate 4: Launch Project?
Select Development Approach
Form Agile or Lean Team
Incept Development Process
Develop Agile Contract
Approve Agile Contract
Assign Project Manager
Develop Project Charter
Form Working Group
Engage Stakeholders
Approve Project Charter

Plan

13

Gate 5: Plan in Detail?
Select Scheduling Approach
User Story Mapping
Release or Sprint Planning
Approve Product or Sprint Backlog
Project Baselines
Project Management Plan
Plan Marketing Activities
Collect and Elicit Requirements
Analyze Strategy and Requirements
Trace Requirements
Model and Design Product
Approve Project Management Plan

Do

9

Gate 6: Start Project Work?
Continuous Sprint Planning
Daily StandUp or Scrum Meetings
Product Backlog Refinement
Direct and Manage Project Work
Manage Project Knowledge
Conduct Procurements
Execute Marketing Activities
Iterative Elaborate Prototype and Requirements

Control

15

Gate 7: Keep Project on Track?
Sprint Demo or Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective
Give Feedback on Product Increments and Project Deliverables
Monitor and Control Project Work
Control Related Indicators
Business Intelligence
Validate and Control Scope
Control Quality
Perform Integrated Change Control
Form and Sharing Progress Reports, Dashboards, Radiators
Marketing Analytics
Audit and Evaluate Requirements Changes
Receive Project Progress Reports
Approve Change Requests

Close

16

Deliver Project Results to the Customer
Gate 8: Deliver and Close Stage or Project Sprint or Release?
Continuous Delivery
Sprint CloseOut
Release CloseOut
Accept Sprint Increment / Deliverables
Accept Product Release
Deliver Stage Results to the Customer
Record Lessons Learned
Formally Complete or Close Project
Train Operation Staff
Run Integration Testing in a Production Environment
Create User Documentation
Accept Stage Results
Accept Final Project Result Product or Service
Gate 9: Transit Final Product or Service or Result

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Table of Contents

+Introduction to project management
Definition of key terms
What the step receives as input: the baselines, the charter and the people are already in place
The project management plan: one document that links all the plans
How the plan is assembled: from inputs to approval and changes
Ten subsidiary plans — a full list, not a mandatory one
Change management plan and configuration management plan
The governance structure: who decides and where to escalate
Cost and resources: the rules by which things are counted and allocated
Quality management plan and quality metrics
Communications management plan: to whom, what, when and how
Procurement management plan and three families of contracts
Risk management plan and risk breakdown structure
Risk register: created here, maintained later
Plan status: from draft to revision
Two routes into the step and two out of it
Conclusion
How to do it
Tailoring
Practice

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Gate 1: Create a Vision?
Explore the Background
Develop Product Vision
Collect Requirements
Idea Chosen
Develop Road Map
Gate 2: Conduct a Research?
Search and Test Hypotheses
Approve Vision
FinPlan P and L, Cashflow, Balance, Fin. Indicators

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