CHAPTER 2

Listen—Qualifying Our Ideas

This leg of the PMGB is focused on qualifying our ideas, hence the term Listen—this is not about who shouts the loudest or who’s doing the shouting! It is about ensuring we have a viable project. It encompasses touching all the bases to begin to understand the broad aspects of the potential scope, timing, and resource commitment before taking the next steps. This stage is also about getting basic information so that multiple projects can be assessed and prioritized relative to each other.

It’s important to remember that this leg of the Project Management GameBoard applies to both client-initiated projects (ones that are processes for our organization) and ideas that may create projects for our organization. ...

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