Kicking Off a Project

Lead Advocacy Group: Program Management

An Envision Track contains deliverables, checkpoints, and activities to consider at the beginning of a project. However, it is extremely likely that a whole bunch of pre–Envisioning Track activities and approvals are needed to be able to kick off a project.

The following sections briefly highlight some common activities that enable a project to be kicked off. This assumes that a business case justifying the need for a project has already been assembled for business sponsors to review and approve. Hopefully, operations and support teams have also been involved in project proposal activities to make sure that they are ready, willing, and capable of assuming operations and maintenance of ...

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