Radical Project Management

The RAP Structure

It might appear that getting a group of stakeholders together in a room is a high-risk scenario and that the meeting could degenerate into a talkfest, at best, and a rabble, at worst.

Over many years of experience, we have developed a structured process that guides the RAP session and enables the participants to focus on specific project planning issues one at a time. As we'll explain in the rest of this component, we have also developed and refined a series of tools that are used during the RAP session.

Figure 6.2 outlines the basic RAP structure, and we'll go into further detail in the later chapters.

Figure 6.2. The RAP structure

In effect, the RAP process is the project planning process shown in Figure 5.2 broken into a ...