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1. What do we get?2. How do we get it?

3. Who helps?

1. What do we get?2. How do we get it?

3. Who helps?

1. What do we get?2. How do we get it?

3. Who helps?

1. What do we get?2. How do we get it?

3. Who helps?

1. What's the top deliverable?2. Who are the stakeholders for this?

3. What are the sub-deliverables or supporting deliverables that lead up to the top deliverable?

For each stakeholder…2. How do they win?

3. How big is the win (1-10, "10" = "biggest")?

4. What's the biggest concern?

5. How big is the concern (1-10, "10" = "biggest")?

1. How much does each supporting deliverable contribute to the top deliverable (1-10, "10" is "most")?

2. What supporting deliverables can be started first?

3. Which supporting deliverables have to wait? 4. When can work start on the 2nd set of

supporting deliverables?

For each supporting deliverable…2. When do we expect to be able to review and

approve this deliverable? 3. Who will need to approve it?4. Who is the accountable owner?

5. What could go wrong? (These are our "Risks")

For each Risk…2. What's the probability that it will happen (0 to 100%)?3. If it happens, how bad will it be (1 – 10, “10” = “worst”)?4. Do we try to avoid this altogether? Or contain it? Let

someone else deal with it? Or accept it and take our chances?

5. What will need to be done to avoid / contain / transfer or otherwise manage this risk?

1. What do we get?2. How do we get it?

3. Who helps?

For each Supporting Deliverable…2. What all needs to be done to deliver this?

(“Tasks”)3. What all do we need to wait for to deliver

this? (“Dependencies”)

For each Supporting Deliverable Dependency…

2. Who owns the dependency delivery?3. When can they deliver?

4. How confident are they that they can deliver (1-10, "10" is "max confidence")?

For each Supporting Deliverable Risk… 2. What all needs to be done before this risk can

be retired? (Risk Tasks)

For each Supporting Deliverable…2. What can be done in our first “step”? (“Tasks”) 3. What tasks will have to wait for step 2?

4. How many steps do we end up with?5. What is a good name for each step? 6. How long should each step take? ("Duration")

For each Supporting Deliverable Task…2. What job titles can help get this done?3. How many hours will this take? 4. Is this really multiple tasks? 5. How many days / weeks / months do we have to

get this done?6. What's the relative involvement of each job title

(1-10, "10" is "biggest")?7. What's the relative cost of each job title (1-10,

"10" is "biggest")?

1. What do we get?2. How do we get it?

3. Who helps?

1. Which teams or individuals are available to help fill the job titles we need? (Resources)

For each Resource…2. How many hours can this Resource help per

week or month? 3. Which job title(s) can they fill?4. Who will need to approve and commit this

resource to helping with this project?

1. For which job titles will we need to find people? (Vacancies)

For each Vacancy…2. Who will need to approve the acquisition of

this resource?

3. How long will it take to acquire and train this resource?

1. What does the org chart for this project look like?

1. What do we get?2. How do we get it?

3. Who helps?

1. What do we get?2. How do we get it?

3. Who helps?