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​​​​​Project Definition and Justification​​


  • Project Definition Document Preparation Guidelines: This document provides detailed instructions, recommended text, and examples to support you in developing a Project Definition Document using the QNPM template.
  • Project Definition Document Template : The Project Definition Document provides a brief overview of a proposed project to promote a shared understanding of it before a more detailed Plan, Schedule, and Budget is prepared.
  • Quality Assurance Guide for Project Definition Documents: This job aid supports managers who have been asked to review or approve a Project Definition Document (PDD). For each section of the PDD, it suggests quality considerations and key questions to pose to the authors.
  • Project Business Case Preparation Guidelines : This document provides detailed instructions, recommended text, and examples to support you in developing a Project Business Case using the QNPM template.
  • ​Project Business Case Template : A Business Case demonstrates a project’s benefits and shows that other options were analyzed before the team arrived at its recommendation to pursue a particular project. A Business Case outlines a project’s financial and non-financial benefits and addresses questions such as strategic fit, achievability, affordability, and governance.

 

Project Planning


  • ​Project Plan Preparation Guidelines : This document provides detailed instructions, recommended text, and examples to support you in developing a Project Plan using the QNPM template.
  • Project Plan Template : The Project Plan describes what work a project will do, what results will be achieved, and how project work will be executed and managed. It describes team roles and responsibilities and deliverables. It identifies assumptions, constraints, dependencies, risks, and issues, and it provides high level Schedule and budget information.
  • QA Guide for Project Plans : This job aid supports managers who have been asked to review or approve a Project Plan. For each section of the Project Plan, it suggests quality considerations and key questions to pose to the authors.
  • Project Schedule Template : The Project Schedule is a Gantt chart that outlines when activities will take place and when deliverables will be completed. It also identifies project milestones and phases. The QNPM Tool will help you create a Schedule for larger projects; what is provided here is an Excel file.
  • Resource Estimate Worksheet : This worksheet is designed to help determine all the resources required to complete a project. You will need a work breakdown structure, or an outline of all the work required to complete the project, to use this worksheet.
  • Ready Reckoner : This "Ready Reckoner" provides approximate human resource costs for staff by grade level, and it is used to estimate the human resource cost of a project.

 

Risk Management


  • Risk Management Plan Preparation Guidelines : This document provides detailed instructions, recommended text, and examples to support you in developing a Risk Management Plan using the QNPM template.
  • Risk Management Plan Template : The Risk Management Plan outlines the risk management approach for a specific project. It provides standard terminology, clear roles and responsibilities, a detailed description of the risk management process, and the standard templates used in that process. It is designed to guide the project team and stakeholders.
  • Risk Log Template : This log is used to record and track risks throughout the life of a project.
  • Risk Identification Form Template : A form used to communicate a newly-identified risk to the Project Manager.
  • Risk Assessment Form Template : A form used to summarize an assessment of a specific risk.
  • Risk Status Report Template : A Risk Status Report provides information on the team’s effectiveness in managing risks. It shows the team’s effectiveness in taking action to reduce the potential negative effects of risks on a project.
  • Risk Analysis Worksheet : This worksheet allows you to assess risks according to four factors: probability, impact, timeline, and status of response activities. It produces an overall risk score based on each of these factors. The higher the score, the greater the danger the risk poses to the project and the higher its priority.

 

Change Control


  • Change Control Plan Preparation Guidelines : This document provides detailed instructions, recommended text, and examples to support you in developing a Change Control Plan using the QNPM template.
  • Change Control Plan Template : The Change Control Plan outlines the change control approach for a specific project. It provides standard terminology, clear roles and responsibilities, a detailed description of the approved change control process, and the standard templates used in that process. It is designed to guide the project team and stakeholders.
  • Change Request Template : A form used to document a new change request.
  • Change Impact Statement Template : A form used to communicate the impact of a requested change on the overall project.
  • Change Log Template : This log is used to record and track change requests throughout the life of a project.

 

Issue Management


  • Issue Management Plan Preparation Guidelines : This document provides detailed instructions, recommended text, and examples to support you in developing an Issue Management Plan using the QNPM template.
  • Issue Management Plan Template : The Issue Management Plan outlines the issue management approach for a specific project. It provides standard terminology, clear roles and responsibilities, a detailed description of the approved issue management process, and the standard templates used in that process. It is designed to guide the project team and stakeholders.
  • Issue Identification Form Template : A form used to communicate a newly-identified issue to the Project Manager.
  • Issue Assessment Form Template : A form used to summarize an assessment of the impact of an issue on a project.

 

Status Reporting


  • Status Report Preparation Guidelines : This document provides detailed instructions, recommended text, and examples to support you in producing a Status Report using the QNPM template.
  • Status Report Template : A Status Report provides a high level summary of the progress of a project and how risks, issues, and change requests are being managed.
  • QA Guide for Status Reports : This job aid supports managers who have been asked to review or approve a Status Report. For each section of the Status Report, it suggests quality considerations and key questions to pose to the Project Manager.
  • Status Meeting Agenda : A standard agenda to be used at weekly team status meetings.

     

Document Management


  • Document Management Plan Preparation Guidelines : This document provides detailed instructions, recommended text, and examples to support you in producing a Document Management Plan using the QNPM template.
  • Document Management Plan Template : The Document Management Plan outlines the document management approach for a specific project. It provides standard terminology, clear roles and responsibilities, and a detailed description of expectations of team members regarding document control. It is designed to guide the project team.
  • Project Archive Checklist : Project archives contain all final project deliverables, communications materials, procurement-related documents, and project management deliverables. This checklist is a job aid for compiling a project archive.

 

Human Resource Management


  • The Team Launch Agenda Template : A Team Launch is an all-team meeting to build the team and orient team members to the Project Plan, Schedule, and Budget as well as the project’s administrative and project management processes.
  • Exit Interview Questionnaire : An Exit Interview is done when a team member leaves a project team. They are conducted so that managers can learn from the insights and criticisms of departing employees and identify ways to retain other team members.
  • RACI Chart : A RACI Chart is a popular tool used to clarify roles and responsibilities in an organization. It is a table that provides a list of project activities and information about roles different people have in relation to those activities.
  • Standard Organization Chart and Role Descriptions ​: This document provides a generic project organization chart with descriptions of common roles on projects, such as Sponsor or Steering Committee member. It supports completion of the Human Resources Plan section of a Project Plan.
  • Team Stage Survey: Project teams go through different stages of development, and effective leaders manage teams differently depending on which stage they are in. This job aid helps Project Managers determine (i) which stage of development their team is in and (ii) what leadership style is most likely to support a high performing team.

 

Stakeholder Alignment


  • Stakeholder Identification Checklist : This checklist provides a list of common stakeholders in Qatar’s public sector projects to consider when identifying project stakeholders.
  • Communications Plan Preparation Guidelines : This document provides detailed instructions, recommended text, and examples to support you in producing a Communications Plan using the QNPM template.
  • Communications Plan Template : A Communications Plan outlines the overall approach for communicating with stakeholders about a specific project. It outlines key messages, describes key stakeholders, and describes communications activities and how their success will be evaluated. It also provides a communications budget and Schedule.
  • Steering Committee Terms of Reference Template : A document that helps you define the role of the Steering Committee and its members and how the Committee will operate.
  • Steering Committee Standing Agenda Template : A template for an agenda for Steering Committee meetings.
  • Advisory Group Terms of Reference Template : A document that helps you define the role of the Advisory Committee and its members and how the Committee will operate.
  • Advisory Committee Standing Agenda Template : A template for an agenda for Advisory Committee meetings.
  • Three Key Questions : This job aid provides three questions you should ask stakeholders in order to have a clear discussion about a project. Their answers will reveal their interests in and perceptions of a project and give you early warning of emerging conflicts.
  • Zone of Reason : This job aid helps you determine how to engage project stakeholders t based on the level of impact the project is expected to have on them.

 

Miscellaneous


  • Project Manual Preparation Guidelines : This document provides detailed instructions, recommended text, and examples to support you in producing a Project Manual using the QNPM template.
  • Project Manual Template : The Project Manual is a brief document that outlines administrative processes, methodologies, and other expectations of the project team.
  • Meeting Minutes Template : This template provides a generic format for recording meeting information, including decisions and actions. It can be used for a variety of meeting types, such as weekly team status meetings, risk management meetings, or approval meetings.
  • Action Plan Template : An Action Plan is for smaller teams. It helps break down work packages in the Project Schedule into smaller activities and helps track progress.
  • Project Inventory worksheet : This worksheet is designed to help compile an inventory of projects in a program, a portfolio, a department, or an entire organization.
  • Project Sizing Calculator : This job aid provides advice on which elements of the QNPM Framework to use based on the size and complexity of a project

 

Project Closeout


  • Project Acceptance Document Preparation Guidelines : This document provides detailed instructions, recommended text, and examples to support you in producing a Project Acceptance Document using the QNPM template
  • Project Acceptance Document Template : This document serves as a record that all of the project’s deliverables have been accepted as complete and states whether or not the project is regarded as having achieved its overall goal.
  • Lessons Learned Preparation Guidelines : This document provides detailed instructions, recommended text, and examples to support you in producing a Lessons Learned Document using the QNPM template.
  • Lessons Learned Template : This document provides advice to other projects by sharing lessons learned and timeline and cost information.