\nLevel 1 (Projects longer than 6 months in duration)<\/strong>
\n-Full blown project planning and documentation for whatever is appropriate to the project<\/p>\n
Level 2 (Projects 1-6 months in duration)<\/strong> -Project Closure report at the end which summarizes the business benefits gained and effort spent. This is a good post-mortem look at ROI. Lessons learned are also attached to this.<\/p>\n Level 3 (Projects 1 to 4 weeks in duration)<\/strong> -Project Closure Report<\/p>\n Level 4 (Less than 1 week)<\/strong> I keep detailed activity logs for all levels of projects, even if it’s a 2 hour job. My department has a sharepoint site set up that works really slick for this.<\/p>\n I find that using these guidelines, and the templates I’ve developed, really makes it easy for me to keep my ducks in a row and keep my stakeholders informed about what is going on, for any small to medium project I am managing. For more information, check out this great article<\/a> by Simon Buehring which I found today and very closely matches my style for managing small projects.<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n About the author Finding the right balance of documentation and methodology can be challenging on small projects. 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\n-Simplified project planning document, which includes brief communications and risk plans, along with scope definition, limitations, objectives, and deliverables. Also containts a simple WBS and Gantt-style task list with dependencies, owners, estimates, and a timeline.
\n-Weekly status reports to stakeholders
\n-Project meeting agenda\/minutes template – I use this to document the agenda before meetings about the project, then update it immediately after the meetings and send it out to all the stakeholders. It includes a section for decisions regarding agenda items, and a seperate section for action items.<\/p>\n
\n-Simple project request form, where the requestor fills out their definition of requirements and business justification. Since these requests are fairly simple, I normally work out the details of the requirements over the phone with the customer, and just make updates in my project documentation log (which I keep for all projects big and small)
\n-Weekly status reports to all stakeholders (sometimes yes, sometimes no – depends on the project)<\/p>\n
\n-For this I still have the simple project request form
\n-Email when the deliverable (usually 1) is ready for validation, asking for approval<\/p>\n
\n<\/em><\/p>\n
\n![\"JoshNankivel\"](\"https:\/\/svapm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/joshnankivel.thumbnail.jpg\" "\\"JoshNankivel\\"")
<\/a> Josh Nankivel<\/a> is a Project Planning & Controls Control Account Manager and contractor for the ground system of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission<\/a>, a joint project between the USGS<\/a> and NASA<\/a>. His academic background includes a BS in Project Management, summa cum laude.\u00a0 He can be found writing and contributing in many places within the project management community, and his primary project management website is located at pmstudent.com<\/a>. <\/em><\/em><\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"