Determining the Project Class

To determine the project class, the project manager will complete the following checklists that are used to determine the project's strategic importance, its degree of business risk, its degree of technical and management risk, and its size. The instructions that accompany each checklist are intended for a project manager who has just been assigned to a project.

Figure 9-3 is used to determine the strategic importance ranking. It presents a series of questions intended to determine the strategic importance of the project to the company. First, determine whether the project is external or internal, then answer the questions for the appropriate type of project. For each ''yes/no'' question, enter a rank of 1 if the ...

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