The 7 secret ingredients for digital project success

The 7 secret ingredients for digital project success

The 7 secret ingredients for digital project success
OXOAK / Content and design

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The 7 secret ingredients for digital project success

Agree goals, audience, scope, inputs, ownership, budget and acceptance before starting. Write each as a checkable statement instead of relying on verbal agreement.

The 7 secret ingredients for digital project success

Putting project delivery into practice

Scope includes pages, content, functions and acceptance methods. Record change impact and decisions, and distinguish demonstrations, tests and released work.

The 7 secret ingredients for digital project success

Checking the result

Trace requirements to actual pages or outcomes and check owners and outstanding items. Provide inspectable evidence rather than a bare completion statement.

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Define component maintenance responsibilities, inputs, collaborators and review outcomes. This page describes a discipline; staffing is agreed for each project.