Scoping and Planning

IT Project Scoping and Planning

We don’t love grey areas – clarity is what helps technology projects deliver on time, to budget. JPL provides your team with the expertise to develop a scope and plan that leaves as little ambiguity as possible. Thanks to our deep project and programme experience, we’re able to support you to prioritise, define and map out phases.

Helping build a clear project scope

Projects and programmes come from the need for business change – usually directed by a leadership team, board or ministerial mandate. We help you research and develop a project scope the business will be able to reference easily at any point in the project.

Because our team is regularly working on ICT projects across the industry, we stay up to date with all the variables that could impact scope – technical feasibility, vendor options, the availability of internal resources and so on. WIth JPL, you’ll confidently develop a project scope anchored to reality.

Mapping out a project plan

The project plan is far more than delivery milestones. It’s a set of tools that enable communication and reporting. It’s the cadence of meetings and the format they take. It’s also the governance that surrounds the project, such as measurement of success, risk management and resolution of disputes around the project’s delivery or scope. JPL’s group will support your organisation to create a well-articulated project plan and establish these other key processes to give us the best chance of success.

Challenges we solve with scope

What’s preventing your organisation from having water-tight project scopes and priorities? This isnt’ always a straightforward answer. We help to both define the challenges faced and develop solutions to these. Typical scoping issues we see include:

• Lack of alignment between stakeholders as to the priorities of a project.
• Disconnect between the strategic objectives of leadership and the current perception of the project’s purpose inside the business.
• Determining the features and functionality of a solution that are must-haves – and what can be deferred.
• Articulating a scope that will be a useful reference point throughout the life of the project.

At JPL we help you work through all these challenges and any others you may be facing.

A commitment to senior, proven project expertise

Choosing JPL as your project partner gives you access to our Known To Be Good group, a carefully curated and QA’d group of project delivery and technical experts that have excellent track records with successful ICT projects. Every person that comes through JPL to work on your project is someone we trust to get the job done well. In building a scope and project plan, our people will be drawing upon a wealth or prior experience navigating this process. We have many strategies to both alleviate headaches around planning and ultimately deliver a scope and plan that is in tune with your organisations’ unique culture and capabilities.