Holding the Kickoff Meeting
Once the project charter is signed and approved, your next task is to hold a project kick-off meeting. This meeting should include the sponsor, your key project team members, and the key stakeholders on the project. You’ll want to address and discuss most of the sections in the charter during this meeting. It’s important that everyone understands the goals and objectives of the project, the project description, the high-level milestones, and the general project approach. This document and the project scope statement, covered in Chapter 4, are the two documents you’ll come back to when stakeholders try to steer you or the team in a different direction than what was originally outlined. I’m not saying that stakeholders would ever do this on purpose, but trying to sneak in one more feature or making this “one little change” tends to make its way into most projects I’ve worked on. These documents are your safety...