The Start phase

A good start phase can be critical for the project’s chanses of success.

• Go through the background and work done so far.
• Do a stakeholder analysis.
• Clarify the project’s level of ambition by describing the business objectives.
• Describe the rest of the project arena (project objectives, exclusions, limits and conditions).
• Visualize the project, preferably using breakdown structures.
• Organize the project and describe how the interaction should work both within the project and with the project environment.
• Plan and budget the project.
• Anchor the project internally and externally and secure resources.
• Describe the opportunities and risks with the project, and proposed actions.
• Describe how the work will be followed up.