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Below are some questions for you as you engage in DeTPRAM (determining the parameters):
Deliverable
- What’s the final outcome?
- What would represent wild success for this?
- What’s the ideal format to share this?
- Are there any useful add-ons to provide also?
Timing
- When do you need the final FINAL version?
- When should we review a draft version of this?
- Will we need any extra lead time for subsequent revisions?
- When can we start?
Process
- Are there any particular legal or compliance pieces that must be considered here?
- Should I use a particular approach or piece of software in producing this deliverable?
- How will we collaborate?
Resources
- How much time is too much time to spend on this?
- How much money are we able to invest in this?
- Whom else may I bring into this project?
- What must I not do in order to do this?
Audience
- Who is this project for right now?
- Who is this project for ultimately?
- How will they share it amongst themselves?
- Where will it go after we have finished it?
Motive
- Why are they asking for this?
- What underlying objectives is this meeting?
- What are their greatest priorities associated with this objective?
Hello,
I often leave a meetings that executive management is conducting, where I don’t know what the next steps are, or what the meeting really accomplished. I see the value of the DetPRAM as it will help me steer and navigate through a process that is currently very frustrating.
Best,
Hector
Thanks Hector! How’s it worked out for you thus far?