Project Planning and Initiation

After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:

• Produce portfolio-quality project initiation deliverables
• Define projects in terms of their business value and the importance of satisfying user requirements
• Lead project initiation efforts and business case development that culminate in a project charter
• Conduct a thorough stakeholder analysis that produces a stakeholder map, stakeholder register, RACI matrix, and a stakeholder management plan
• Conduct a requirements analysis that explores a wide range of elicitation techniques, especially a SWOT and gap analysis
• Create a requirements traceability matrix and project scope statement
• Demonstrate project feasibility in terms of technical requirements, ROI, legal or regulatory compliance, operational capacity, and schedule
• Define project governance
• Create a business case
• Produce a project charter
• Launch project planning activities