Project Health Questionnaire

Look for:

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Consistency in responses: Are project constituents, aka stakeholders, consistent in their responses?
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Clarity and brevity: Can team members provide a coherent, understandable response in less than 60 seconds?
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Does their response address purpose, business outcome, and benefits?

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Are leaders engaged in sponsorship meetings and conversations?
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Do they demonstrate an understanding of the work and outcome?
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Are they doing what they've been tasked to do, such as making critical decisions and promptly allocating resources (people, time, CAPEX/OPEX)?
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Do they accept ownership of the project's status and expected outcomes?
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Do they deliver ongoing advocacy via actions for the project?

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Are stakeholders identified that represent all areas impacted by the project?
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Do they understand their roles and responsibilities?
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Have stakeholders provided full-time commitment as necessary to achieve project milestones?
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Are the fully committed stakeholders from the frontline--the primary people who will use the solution?
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Do they attend meetings, engage in discussions, and deliver requisite business, technical, or organizational direction?

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Does the project's solution specify integrating other applications, technologies (social, mobile, analytic, cloud), and organizations to realize its business case?
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Are stakeholders identified and engaged who represent those points of integration?
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Does the project plan, budget, and schedule quantify the work required to realize those integration points?

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Are the requisite changes to organization, people, and relationships specified?
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Are the types of changes well articulated?
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Are those changes adequately quantified in project plans, schedules, and budgets?

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Is 60-day post-implementation support and reinforcement training quantified in the project plan?
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Is there a plan to continuously nurture the project's beneficiaries (people, time, CAPEX/OPEX, and benefits) over the solution's life?

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