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The proposal for starting a project is the 1-page memo.  It should fit on a single page (using a font legible with 50+ eyes!)  The format is described below.  The length and format are non-negotiable.
  
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1. The Idea. What are you proposing? This is typically one sentence.
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# The Idea. What are you proposing? This is typically one sentence.
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2. Background. What conditions have arisen that led you to this recommendation? Only include information that everyone agrees upon in the Background - this is the basis for discussion, so it needs to be non-debatable.
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# Background. What conditions have arisen that led you to this recommendation? Only include information that everyone agrees upon in the Background - this is the basis for discussion, so it needs to be non-debatable.
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3. How it Works. The details. In addition to How, also What, Who, When, Where.
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# How it Works. The details. In addition to How, also What, Who, When, Where.
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4. Key Benefits. This is the "Why?" There are usually three benefits: the recommended action is on strategy, already proven (e.g. in test market or in another business unit), and will be profitable. You can think of these three in terms of the old Total Quality mantra of "doing right things right." The first (on strategy) means you're doing the right thing. The second and third mean you're doing things the right way, because you're being effective (proven to work) and efficient (profitable).
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# Key Benefits. This is the "Why?" One of the benefits would almost certainly be that the recommended action is on strategy; examples of other benefits is how it improves something we're already doing, how it enables some new service (and which problems this new service solves), or how it will otherwise be of benefit to the PDP group, to our charge from De Nationale eInfra, to our Nikhef physics staff.  
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5. Next Steps. Who has to do what and by when for this to happen?
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# Next Steps. Who has to do what and by when for this to happen? Make an initial guess at the resource requirements for the project.

Revision as of 14:12, 11 November 2015

The proposal for starting a project is the 1-page memo. It should fit on a single page (using a font legible with 50+ eyes!) The format is described below. The length and format are non-negotiable.

  1. The Idea. What are you proposing? This is typically one sentence.
  2. Background. What conditions have arisen that led you to this recommendation? Only include information that everyone agrees upon in the Background - this is the basis for discussion, so it needs to be non-debatable.
  3. How it Works. The details. In addition to How, also What, Who, When, Where.
  4. Key Benefits. This is the "Why?" One of the benefits would almost certainly be that the recommended action is on strategy; examples of other benefits is how it improves something we're already doing, how it enables some new service (and which problems this new service solves), or how it will otherwise be of benefit to the PDP group, to our charge from De Nationale eInfra, to our Nikhef physics staff.
  5. Next Steps. Who has to do what and by when for this to happen? Make an initial guess at the resource requirements for the project.
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