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Project Planning Process (PPP) Checklist: Assessment Preparation

This document is a checklist for assessing a project planning process. It contains 31 questions addressing areas like project control activities, planning objectives, and post-review activities. The checklist is used to evaluate whether key elements are in place such as a project plan, schedule, budget, and risk identification process. Assessors review the project planning process against the criteria and record their findings to determine if the process is complete and valid.

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Project Planning Process (PPP) Checklist: Assessment Preparation

This document is a checklist for assessing a project planning process. It contains 31 questions addressing areas like project control activities, planning objectives, and post-review activities. The checklist is used to evaluate whether key elements are in place such as a project plan, schedule, budget, and risk identification process. Assessors review the project planning process against the criteria and record their findings to determine if the process is complete and valid.

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Project Planning Process (PPP) Checklist

Date(s) of Assessment: ______________ Project: ___________________________________


Assessor(s): _______________________ Process Assessed: ___________________________
______________________________________________________________________________

Y, N, F, O Comments
NA
ASSESSMENT PREPARATION
1 Have standards been identified to
clearly define the process assessment?
2 Were guidelines used to prepare for
the assessment?
3 Has the project submitted any request
for deviations or waivers to the
defined process?
4 Have entrance and exit criteria been
established for the assessment?
5 Were the appropriate stakeholders
involved in this assessment?
PROJECT CONTROL ACTIVITY
6 Has the scope of the project been
estimated?
7 Are project requirements identified?
8 Are product requirements identified?
9 Were Tasks and Work Products
identified? Note: Work products may
include task descriptions, work
package descriptions, WBS, plans,
and procedures.
10 Has a Work Breakdown Structure
(WBS) been developed?
11 Is the WBS based on the product
architecture?
12 Are Work packages in sufficient detail
to identify the following project
estimates:
12a Tasks?
12b Responsibilities?
12c Schedule?
13 Are project effort and cost estimates
established for tasks and work
products?
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Project Planning Process (PPP) Checklist
Y, N, F, O Comments
NA
14 As applicable, have the following
been developed:
14a Development concepts?
14b Mission Development Strategies?
14c Data Management Plans?
14d Acquisition strategies?
14e Space operations service agreements?
14f Launch service agreements?
14g Logistics Management?
14h Information Management
Technology?
14i Resource Management?
14j Earned Value Management?
PROJECT PLANNING PROCESS OBJECTIVES
15 Is a Project Plan established?
16 Is there evidence that the Project
Plan’s content is maintained to reflect
any changes (e.g., work products,
resources)?
17 Has a schedule been developed that
identifies major milestones, task
dependencies, critical paths, and
constraints?
18 Has the project’s budget been
established?
19 Have resources been allocated to
adequately implement the project
planning process?
20 Have training requirements been
identified?
21 Are risks identified, documented,
analyzed, prioritized, and updated, as
appropriate?
22 Is there evidence of higher level
management review of the project
planning process?

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Project Planning Process (PPP) Checklist
Y, N, F, O Comments
NA
23 Is there evidence of work products,
measures, measurement results, and
improvement information derived
from planning and performing the
project planning process to support the
future use and improvement of the
organization's processes and process
assets?
24 Have commitments to the Project Plan
been established and maintained?
25 Has the project obtained commitment
from the stakeholders responsible for
performing and supporting the plan’s
execution?
POST REVIEW ACTIVITIES
26 At the conclusion of the assessment, is
an understanding reached on the
validity and degree of completeness of
the Project Planning Process?
27 Did all designated parties concur in
the acceptability of the Project
Planning Process?
28 Are there any risks, issues, or request
for actions (RFAs) that require follow-
up?
29 Is there a process in place for
reviewing and tracking the closure of
risks, issues, or RFAs?
30 Have all artifacts been placed under
formal configuration control?
31 Were Lessons Learned addressed and
captured?
REFERENCE ITEMS/DOCUMENTS
CMMI Version 1.1, Guidelines for Process and Integration and Product Improvement
NPR 7120.5B, NASA Program and Project Management Processes and Requirements

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Project Planning Process (PPP) Checklist

Date(s) of Assessment: ________________ Project: ______________________________________


Assessor(s): _________________________ Process Assessed: ______________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________

COMMENTS PAGE _____ of _____

# Comments from assessment

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Y=Yes, N=No, NA=Not Applicable, F=Finding, O=Observation

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