Running The Implementation Project

Ensuring a successful and impactful solution is in everyone’s best interest, and this often requires collaboration across teams, vendors, and customers. By leveraging your pre-purchase discovery and prioritizing your needs, implementation projects can move more quickly to provide value sooner.

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Prioritizing and scheduling

What other projects are dependent on this project succeeding?
What other work is at risk if this project is prioritized above it?
Does this effort create the highest impact for students?

Implementation and project discovery

What are the project’s primary goals and expected outcomes/deliverables?
What are the risks/concerns around this project (e.g. funding, data privacy, complexity)?
Are there any timeline drivers throughout the academic or fiscal year that should be considered?

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Assemble your project team

Who is your executive level sponsor for this project?
Who is your core implementation team?
Who needs to be aware that this effort is underway?
- Do you have department or campus buy-in?
How do the key stakeholders prefer to be notified and involved in project communications?