Milestones of the Initiation Phase
P0: Project kick-off
This milestone is reached if preliminary requirements
exist and if the decision has been made to use these
requirements. This decision does not yet involve
executing a tender (this will not take place until the
Definition phase) but merely initiating the project.
Milestone P0 thus marks the start of the project.
However, it is also possible to label the activities of
the Initiation phase as being preliminary in nature and
not to begin the project until P1 (the decision as to
whether the enterprise will become a project will not be
decided until this point).
P1: Project enterprise decided
This milestone is reached if all mandatory results of the
phase are in place. The mandatory results are:
- Specification of proposed solution
- Preliminary project plan
- Preliminary QA plan
- Project decision report
If the project decision report is positive, the
project data should be entered in the PSE project control
tool PROCON no later than this stage (together with the
key data of the project, milestones, provisional effort
and deadlines).
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