4.5.1

Question 1

What is the definition of project design?

Answer 1

Design describes how the demands, wishes and influences of theorganisation(s) are interpreted then weighed and translated into a
high-level design of the project to ensure the highest probability of
success

Question 2

What are the measures to “acknowledge, prioritise and review success criteria” ?

Answer 2

• Acknowledge, prioritise and
review success criteria
• Review, apply and exchange
lessons learned from and with
other projects
• Determine complexity and its
consequences for the
approach
• Select and review the overall
project management
approach
• Design the project execution
architecture

Question 3

What are the measures of lessons learned?

Answer 3

• What management and quality processes
went well, badly or were lacking
• Conducted throughout the project
• Performance of specialist methods and
tools
• Recommendations for future
improvements
• Estimating statistics
• Separate Cause from Effect
• Apply lessons from previous projects
• Share lessons with other projects

Question 4

What are the measures on project complexity?

Answer 4

• Personal accountabilities
• Uncertainty or conflicting objectives.
• High severity risks or high levels of
unpredictability
• Multiple work
packages/projects/programmes
• Multiple, interdependent stakeholders,
possibly with competing interests
• Contextual complexity
• Leadership, organisation and teams
• Competing stakeholders

Question 5

What are the measures for choosing the approach to the project ?

Answer 5

• Approach should have the highest
probability of success
• Consider the following constraints:
– contextual influences and demands
– complexity of the project
– lessons learned
– known success criteria and available
success factors
• Set out a project vision
• Underpinned by the architecture or
blueprint
• Produce a high level Project Brief or
Charter

Question 6

What is the measure for project execution architecture?

Answer 6

Informs the essential choices:
• Make or buy
• Waterfall or iterative
• Internal resources or external
• What tools and methods to use
Assign the right type of Project Manager for
the project in question considering:
• Sufficiently experienced
• Understands the content
• Appropriate leadership style
• Business savvy