Template:Project start

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Contents 1 Need 2 Description 3 Goal or deliverable 4 Timeline, schedule, or end date 5 Plan 6 Financial budget 7 Labor budget

Need

A sentence-long description of the need your project fulfills goes here.

Description

detailed description of the project

Goal or deliverable

generally a priority list of one or more goals or deliverables, upon which the success of the project can be measured

1. goal or deliverable 1
2. goal or deliverable 2

Timeline, schedule, or end date

time-related aspects of the project, which may include intermediate deadlines, dependencies, etc

Plan

generally, a numbered list of tasks, performed in order, that will together accomplish the project's goals or deliverables

1. the first thing we do is kill all the lawyers
2. then clean up the mess
3. then create something new that replaces the lawyers
4. then sit around and complain about the replacement
5. repeat steps above, as necessary

Financial budget

how much money will be needed, possibly high-low bracketed and detailed, or a complete guess (try to indicate how firm a guess it is!)

Labor budget

how many people are needed for how long, including specific people or specific skill-sets

• electrician: 20 hours
• anyone: 10 hours to move the rocks
• Joe: 10 hours design