Overview | Scope | Objective | Plan | Milestones | Responsibility Matrix | Resource | Stakeholders | Top 3 Issues and Risks | Healthcheck
FFWD PM Project Master File – Overview
At Fast Forward Project Management we believe in simplicity and the FFWD PM Project Master file is exactly that! The Master File is an Excel based set of user friendly linked worksheet templates that can easily be populated, adjusted and added to as required by the user. Not only is this a very useful addition to the project teams tool kit it can also be used as a simple progress reporting tool for project review meetings and onward distribution and reporting to stakeholders.
The light touch, non-bureaucratic FFWD PM Project Master file is a one stop shop for key high level project documentation. Other supplementary pages of your choice can be added to include a Project Outline, Project Brief, Stakeholder plans and Risk & Issue registers etc.
The purpose of the Master file is to give the Sponsor, the Project Manager and Project Team a high level view of what's planned and how things are progressing without the need for expensive systems and supplementary software packages. Each of the pages can be easily copied into PowerPoint slide packs for presentation purposes.
Repeated information such as project name, owners, dates etc are auto linked to other sheets for convenience. This Master file can however be used in conjunction with other project tracking and monitoring systems such as MS Project.
The links below will demonstrate the level of simplicity that the Fast Forward approach to project management brings. Click on the links below to display pre-populated extracts from the Project Maser file to show how a completed file would look for a typical project.
Overview | Scope | Objective | Plan | Milestones | Responsibility Matrix | Resource | Stakeholders | Top 3 Issues and Risks | Healthcheck
- Scope: The Project Scope template is an aid to defining project Goal and Objectives and to build on knowledge already gained from the sponsors Project Outline document.
- Objective: The Project Goal and supporting Objectives are key to establishing where a project is going and will enable the formulation of a project plan.
- Plan: This Milestone Plan template is simply a Plan on a page and gives the Sponsor the project team and stakeholders a view of the route map to achieving the project goal.
- Milestones: The Milestone Contract Definition is the delivery contract between the Project manager and the Milestone owner and provides further granularity in the form of high level activities and success metrics.
- Responsibility Matrix: The Responsibility Matrix is primarily a means of identifying key players and project resource.
- Resource: The Resource Summary is used to record the key project resource for the delivery of the project. It will detail named individuals, skill area, and days required and also help understand the cost of resource needed.
- Stakeholders: This Stakeholder analysis template enables the team and other stakeholders to record the assessment of stakeholder feelings, resistance or support for the intended change and enable Stakeholder plans.
- Issues and Risks: This simple template records the top 3 Issues and Risks and can be used for high level reporting. This template will be supplemented by Issue and Risk registers.
- Healthcheck: The Healthcheck is a multi dimensional view used to assess the maturity of a project or programme, and is made up from a number of key dimensions.
We can supply limited functionality sample Master File downloads for free and also supply a fully functional Master File for a small fee. If you are interested in receiving either a limited functionality sample or a functional Master File contact us at: info@ffwdpm.com