Project Management at Colart

Definition of a project

At Colart, a project is defined by meeting three or more of the following criteria:
 
  • An activity that is outside of day-to-day (BAU) delivery.
  • Is validating or building or modifying an asset, product, capability or infrastructure within the business.
  • Takes more than 10 person-days of effort.
  • Requires cross-functional collaboration outside of your immediate team.
  • Has specific objectives and deliverables.
  • Is an activity that involves risk or uncertainty.
 

The Colart Way to Manage Projects

Tools and methodology
  • Our methodology is based on agile practices and tailored to fit Colart.
    • The methodology is more important that the tools used to track and co-ordinate the tasks.
  • The tools we use include:

Essential steps for the success of any project

These are general steps which are applicable to all types of projects

 

Project definition

  1. Define what the project intentions are, the requirements, and their priority
  2. Define the project team, the stakeholders, and ensure they understand their roles
  3. Estimate the budget required
  4. Decide the time-period that the project has to be delivered by
  5. Decide who is responsible for defining how the solution will be delivered

 

Project delivery

  1. Structure of project management
    1. Communication channels, target audience and frequency
    2. Task management
    3. Escalation
    4. Timeline management
    5. Budget management
    6. Ensureing roles are being held accountable

 

Launch

  1. Go/No Go checklist
  2. Training
  3. Communication
    1. Internal
    2. External

 

Post-project

  1. Retrospective on project as a whole
  2. Review descoped tasks and re-schedule for BAU if required

Do you need more guidance?

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The Colart methodology is goverend by the Development team. If you need any assistance to onboard yourself or your project delivery team to our official way of working please contact us.