Software project management template

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Breakdown

• Initiating the project
  • Submit project request form
    1. Establish business justification
  • Evaluate go/no-go decision
    1. Identify project selection criteria
    2. Cost-benefit analysis
    3. Cash-flow forecasting
  • Identify stakeholders
  • Write and publish project charter
    1. Identify high-level project goal(s)
    2. Project description
    3. High-level requirements for deliverables
    4. Establish schedule milestones estimates
    5. Budget estimates
• Determining project requirements
  • Define project scope
    1. Goals
    2. Comprehensive list of deliverables
    3. Acceptance criteria
    4. List of exclusions from scope
    5. Assumptions
    6. Constraints
    7. Critical success factors
  • Create the Communication plan
  • Report and track project progress
• Planning and acquiring resources
  • Establishing the team
    1. Recruitment
    2. Skills assessment
    3. Documenting roles and responsibilities
  • Procuring materials, supplies and equipment
    1. Create a material list
    2. Make-or-buy analysis
    3. Soliciting bids and proposals
       1. Screen systems
       2. Weighted scoring model
• Assessing and tracking risk
  • Assumption analysis
  • Identify risks
  • Creating a risk checklist
  • Perform risk assessment (Expected Value – EV)
    1. Determine risk tolerance
    2. Determine risk probability and impact
  • Document the risk register and matrix
  • Outline how to respond to risk events
• Quality management
  • Outline a Quality Management Plan
  • Determine cost of quality
  • Determine Quality metrics
  • Control quality
• Constructing the project schedule and budget
  • Create the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Estimate project tasks
  • Sequence tasks and determine the critical path
    1. Calculate forward pass
    2. Calculate backward pass
    3. Calculate the critical pass
  • Determine resource availability
  • Determine the project schedule
  • Create the project budget
  • Determine and monitor performance
    1. Cost and schedule variance
    2. Performance indexes/indicators
• Establishing change control processes
• Controlling project outcomes