Objectives

  The document should include a presentation of the issues of resource assessment, task breakdown, prioritization and fallback, responsibility and authority, communication and coordination, review, backup. It should then provide the PERT, Gantt, and Resource Usage charts from MicroSoft Project.

1. team member strengths/skills assesses
2. team member time/availability inventoried
3. team member time resources not expected in excess
4. task size/granularity is reasonable
5. task assignments justified
6. task times sensibly estimated
7. management/review responsibilities clear and complete
8. testing tasks included
9. implementation tasks included
10. preparation/infrastructure tasks included
11. communication/coordination/review tasks included
12. documentation tasks included
13. activities carried on reasonably in parallel
14. backup provided
15. tasks structured and prioritized
16. partial system completion evident and possible
17. task sequencing accounts for priority and partial completion
18. uniformity is enforced and controlled
19. reasonable milestones at reasonable intervals
20. justifications are given, are reasonable, and show thought