Annual Project Planning
What is Annual Project Planning?
Annual Project Planning is a facilitated activity that should be undertaken by every management team once-a-year to plan their projects for the coming 12 months.
Typical contents
- •Identify all the projects that need to be carried out over the next 12 months
- •Prioritise each project
- •Allocate Champions and Project Leaders
- •Identify timescales
- •Identify who needs to be involved
- •Plan how the resulting projects will be monitored and steered
- •Start work on Project Remits - defining the aims, inclusions and exclusions for each project
Who should attend?
The leader of the team and their Direct Reports.
Typical duration
Half-a-day to a full day.
Use your own Facilitators
If we have trained Facilitators in your organisation, they can carry out this assignment for you.
The underpinning philosophy
"One of the big things the Japanese latched onto during my visits there was the concept of annual quality improvement at a revolutionary rate. As a result, their rate of improvement had a very steep slope, whereas the West had a shallow slope. By adopting a philosophy of annual quality improvement at a revolutionary rate, the Japanese over a period of decades ended up as world leaders in quality."
- Dr Joseph Juran
More information
See section 10 of The Complete Guide to Improvement.