Project Brief Checklist

Project Brief Checklist

• Has the project board approved the Project Brief?
• Is the Project Brief to Ambidexter Management or your company's standards?
• Is it brief?
• Does the Project Brief consider and incorporate lessons learned from previous projects?
• Does the project approach considers a range of solutions?
• Has the project approach been selected and explained?
• Does the project approach include any customer and/or supplier standards such as development lifecycles?
• Does the Project Brief accurately reflect the Project Mandate and the requirements of the business and the users?
• Does the Project Brief contain the (outline) Business Case?
• Does the Project Brief contain the approved Project Product Description?
• Does the Project Brief contain an approved project management team structure and define roles?
• Does the Project Brief contain the Project Executive role description?
• Does the Project Brief contain the Project Manager role description?
• Are the project objectives, project approach and strategies consistent with the organization's corporate social responsibility directive?
• Are the project objectives: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound (SMART)?
• After you have completed the Project Brief and taken a step back, does it provide a commonly understood and well-defined starting point for your project?
• Later on in the Project Initiation phase, are the contents of the Project Brief included and expanded in the Project Initiation documents?