Last week, we learned about the five phases of project management.  Each phase of project management has a distinct purpose, importance, and set of outputs designed to ensure that the project manager is moving the project towards the desired results.  The first phase is Project Initiation.

Phase I – Project Initiation

The primary purpose of Project Initiation is to discover the project’s scope — where are its boundaries?  As you see in Figure 1, you need to determine and document the User Requirements & Project Assumptions, produce a Business Case Justification & Feasibility Study, and put together a Project Charter and Project Team.

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When our consultant first met the prospective Boeing spinoff, Advanced Tooling Solutions, the team had fabricated and tested a prototype tool that promised the automotive industry cost advantages and schedule flexibility. But the team was unsure about how to sell to the automotive industry.

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