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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