Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools

Chapter 4. Success Criteria Breed Success^[4]

In this chapter:

Step 1: Define Business Objectives

Step 2: Identify Stakeholders and Their Interests

Step 3: Identify Project Constraints

Step 4: Derive Project Success Criteria

Practice Activities

Note

I’ve worked with some government agencies whose project funding is made available based on a state budgeting cycle. The project schedule is always presented as an imposed constraint: the project must be done by the end of the budget cycle. But people in these agencies tell me that if they don’t complete the project by that time, they nearly always get more money and time to finish the project in the next ...