A - Project Initiation
A02 - Appoint the project manager
A03 - Appoint the key team members
A05 - Identify and plan the deliverables
A06 - Identify risks and plan responses
A07 - Have project initiation peer-reviewed
B - Monthly Initiation
B01 - Revise and refine the plans
B02 - Have the monthly cycle peer-reviewed
B03 - Make a go/no-go decision
C - Weekly Management
C01 - Measure and report performance
C02 - Plan responses for deviations
D - Daily Management
E - Monthly Closure
F - Project Closure
F02 - Evaluate stakeholder satisfaction
F03 - Have the closing activity group peer-reviewed
G - Post-Project Management
F02 - Evaluate stakeholder satisfaction
This management activity belongs to the Project Closure group. This activity group is done when the product of the project is complete, or when you decide to cancel the project.
Send the final anonymous satisfaction questionnaire to the internal and external stakeholders and record the results in the Health Register. While each monthly satisfaction questionnaire is focused on a single month, this final evaluation is about the project as a whole.
Purpose
At this time, no particular action can be taken to improve stakeholder satisfaction, and the main purpose of the evaluation is to have it on record for further analysis of the project and to generate lessons learned for future use.
Common pitfalls
Don’t limit your evaluation of customer satisfaction to a few representatives – evaluate all influential people.
Don’t add too many questions to the questionnaire, so as to keep it easy for the stakeholders to respond.
Even when you do your best to keep the questionnaire anonymous, if there are only a few participants, some of their responses may be identifiable. If this occurs, try to ignore those personally identifiable items, and never use them in the future. Otherwise, some stakeholders may not trust the anonymity of the evaluation.
To ensure that you won’t see personally identifiable information in the event that it does exist, focus on aggregate data and do not review the answers individually.
Principles
The following principles play a significant role in this management activity: