Project Planning question list
When planning a project, ask questions about the following:
- Resources: whose input is needed, whose could you use, what resources might you need
- Executive issues: how it relates to overall company strategy
- Administration: how are we going to manage this project
- Finance: what funds are available, what are the costs, what are the potential payoffs, etc.
- Operations: how does this fit in with other operations of the company, and how are we going to ensure delivery
- Quality: how to monitor progress
- Politics: whose buy-in is needed, and how to get it
- Stakeholders: the board, stockholders, employees, vendors, customers, community?
- Legal: any issues to consider?
- Space/facilities/equipment: what do you need and how do you get it?
- Research: why might you need to know?
- Public relations: should you let others know what you are doing?
- Risks: what could happen and can you handle it?
- Creating thinking: push the limits of your thinking, consider wild outcomes, both good and bad
from GTD
