IT Project Checklist

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IT Project Checklist:

• Interview the future Project Customer (competent representatives of organization) to make you understand:
  • The Customer’s vision of their business needs to be satisfied;
  • How they state a purpose of the project they want to order;
  • How they expect to benefit from the final project’s products;
  • How do they conceptualize the project’s outcomes;
  • How clear they are on objectives to be attained with the project;
  • How do they motivate their requirements;
  • When do they expect to have desired project results to be delivered;
• Consider how feasible and reasonable their requirements are, and decide if your project team, or your organization is really capable of delivering them in a full scale, if no, then:
  • Highlight points in their requirements which you find unfeasible, and explain why it is so;
  • Negotiate on these points until customers agree upon some more feasible solutions;
• Analyze the future Project’s background:
  • What business processes the Customer has to be affected by a solution he demands;
  • How this solution is expected to improve or facilitate these processes;
  • What IT infrastructure the Customer already has/operates;
  • What similar systems or solutions they are currently using in their practice;
  • If any systems are currently utilized, define why they don’t fit their needs;
  • What business situation and challenges they currently face;
• Sketch a general conception of future solution;
• Represent it to the Customer representatives on the meeting:
  • Prepare some visual materials and schemas to make your ideas easier-to-grasp;
  • If your company has done something similar before, then prepare screenshots and samples;
  • Explain to them how you envisage the solution working for their needs;
  • Make sure they understand your vision and ready to discuss it;
  • Discuss it with them and consider all their suggestions and comments;
  • Once you have a clearer picture of work to be done, get everything articulated with them again to check if this final conception is correctly understood by both parties;
  • Roughly estimate time and costs which a project of this scope may consume;
  • Discuss your estimates with representatives and document your resolution;
• Collect information (User stories) to enrich conception of the Project outcomes:
  • Engage immediate users of future solution, or someone who can adequately represent them;
  • Define their practical issues and needs, and how they want them to be resolved;
  • Conduct surveys among users to define some essentials that would be helpful to you;
  • Collect information on similar solutions realized before;
  • Define “likes” and “dislikes” in that previous realizations, and how they can be improved;
  • Establish consistent communications with users;
• Elaborate a more developed conception of your proposed solution, including:
  • Sketches of user interfaces;
  • Diagrams showing how different IT elements will be working together in your solution;
  • Workflow diagram showing how your IT solution will affect/improve the existing processes;
  • Draw a list of prospective features included into solution and user benefits to be gained;
  • Identify and characterize inputs required and outputs produced by your solution;
  • Identify and characterize computing resources necessary to drive your solution;
• Represent the elaborated conception to the Customer and continually refine it with their help;
• Make sure they accept your solution and understand it as completely ...

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