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ОглавлениеCRITERION #2: DEFINE:
INTENT: Formulate the stakeholder problem. Define the problem, needs and objectives.
In my belief, the answer to this question is clearly defined:
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3 Neutral
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1. How do you gather requirements?
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2. What specifically is the problem? Where does it occur? When does it occur? What is its extent?
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3. How do you catch Master Planning definition inconsistencies?
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4. Is there a completed SIPOC representation, describing the Suppliers, Inputs, Process, Outputs, and Customers?
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5. How do you manage scope?
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6. What intelligence can you gather?
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7. How was the ‘as is’ process map developed, reviewed, verified and validated?
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8. What are the Master Planning use cases?
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9. Who defines (or who defined) the rules and roles?
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10. Have the customer needs been translated into specific, measurable requirements? How?
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11. Has a project plan, Gantt chart, or similar been developed/completed?
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12. What would be the goal or target for a Master Planning’s improvement team?
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13. How do you gather the stories?
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14. What defines best in class?
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15. Has anyone else (internal or external to the group) attempted to solve this problem or a similar one before? If so, what knowledge can be leveraged from these previous efforts?
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16. When is/was the Master Planning start date?
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17. Is Master Planning currently on schedule according to the plan?
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18. What customer feedback methods were used to solicit their input?
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19. What is the scope?
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20. Are the Master Planning requirements testable?
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21. Is there regularly 100% attendance at the team meetings? If not, have appointed substitutes attended to preserve cross-functionality and full representation?
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22. Do you have a Master Planning success story or case study ready to tell and share?
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23. Are approval levels defined for contracts and supplements to contracts?
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24. How is the team tracking and documenting its work?
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25. Are roles and responsibilities formally defined?
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26. What is the definition of Master Planning excellence?
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27. What are the dynamics of the communication plan?
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28. In what way can you redefine the criteria of choice clients have in your category in your favor?
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29. What is out of scope?
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30. How would you define the culture at your organization, how susceptible is it to Master Planning changes?
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31. Is the Master Planning scope complete and appropriately sized?
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32. How are consistent Master Planning definitions important?
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33. Do you all define Master Planning in the same way?
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34. Are there any constraints known that bear on the ability to perform Master Planning work? How is the team addressing them?
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35. What are the compelling stakeholder reasons for embarking on Master Planning?
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36. What sort of initial information to gather?
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37. Are accountability and ownership for Master Planning clearly defined?
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38. What Master Planning requirements should be gathered?
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39. What is the worst case scenario?
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40. Have all of the relationships been defined properly?
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41. What scope do you want your strategy to cover?
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42. Has a Master Planning requirement not been met?
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43. Has the Master Planning work been fairly and/or equitably divided and delegated among team members who are qualified and capable to perform the work? Has everyone contributed?
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44. Do the problem and goal statements meet the SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound)?
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45. Who is gathering Master Planning information?
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46. What is the scope of the Master Planning work?
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47. What are the boundaries of the scope? What is in bounds and what is not? What is the start point? What is the stop point?
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48. Is Master Planning linked to key stakeholder goals and objectives?
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49. What system do you use for gathering Master Planning information?
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50. Who are the Master Planning improvement team members, including Management Leads and Coaches?
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51. What is in scope?
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52. Is the team adequately staffed with the desired cross-functionality? If not, what additional resources are available to the team?
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53. How does the Master Planning manager ensure against scope creep?
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54. What are the Roles and Responsibilities for each team member and its leadership? Where is this documented?
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55. Are there different segments of customers?
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56. What gets examined?
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57. Who is gathering information?
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58. Has a team charter been developed and communicated?
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59. Are all requirements met?
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60. Is Master Planning required?
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61. How will the Master Planning team and the group measure complete success of Master Planning?
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62. What is a worst-case scenario for losses?
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63. What information should you gather?
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64. Is the improvement team aware of the different versions of a process: what they think it is vs. what it actually is vs. what it should be vs. what it could be?
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65. What constraints exist that might impact the team?
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66. How did the Master Planning manager receive input to the development of a Master Planning improvement plan and the estimated completion dates/times of each activity?
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67. Are resources adequate for the scope?
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68. Does the team have regular meetings?
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69. How do you manage changes in Master Planning requirements?
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70. What are the tasks and definitions?
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71. How do you think the partners involved in Master Planning would have defined success?
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72. Why are you doing Master Planning and what is the scope?
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73. What is the context?
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74. Are required metrics defined, what are they?
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75. What was the context?
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76. Is there any additional Master Planning definition of success?
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77. What are the core elements of the Master Planning business case?
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78. Are the Master Planning requirements complete?
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79. Has a high-level ‘as is’ process map been completed, verified and validated?
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80. How can the value of Master Planning be defined?
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81. How do you manage unclear Master Planning requirements?
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82. Are task requirements clearly defined?
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83. What is in the scope and what is not in scope?
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84. When are meeting minutes sent out? Who is on the distribution list?
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85. What are the Master Planning tasks and definitions?
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86. How will variation in the actual durations of each activity be dealt with to ensure that the expected Master Planning results are met?
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87. What happens if Master Planning’s scope changes?
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88. What baselines are required to be defined and managed?
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89. What are the rough order estimates on cost savings/opportunities that Master Planning brings?
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90. Is the scope of Master Planning defined?
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91. Will a Master Planning production readiness review be required?
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92. What Master Planning services do you require?
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93. What information do you gather?
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94. Has your scope been defined?
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95. When is the estimated completion date?
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96. What sources do you use to gather information for a Master Planning study?
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97. What is the scope of Master Planning?
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98. Is there a clear Master Planning case definition?
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99. Scope of sensitive information?
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100. What is the definition of success?
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101. What key stakeholder process output measure(s) does Master Planning leverage and how?
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102. How do you keep key subject matter experts in the loop?
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103. Have specific policy objectives been defined?
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104. Are different versions of process maps needed to account for the different types of inputs?
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105. Is it clearly defined in and to your organization what you do?
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106. What are (control) requirements for Master Planning Information?
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107. Has everyone on the team, including the team leaders, been properly trained?
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108. Is special Master Planning user knowledge required?
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109. Is there a completed, verified, and validated high-level ‘as is’ (not ‘should be’ or ‘could be’) stakeholder process map?
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110. Has the direction changed at all during the course of Master Planning? If so, when did it change and why?
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111. Is the Master Planning scope manageable?
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112. What are the record-keeping requirements of Master Planning activities?
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113. What knowledge or experience is required?
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114. How do you hand over Master Planning context?
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115. Where can you gather more information?
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116. Is the current ‘as is’ process being followed? If not, what are the discrepancies?
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117. Is there a critical path to deliver Master Planning results?
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118. Is the work to date meeting requirements?
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119. What scope to assess?
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120. Has the improvement team collected the ‘voice of the customer’ (obtained feedback – qualitative and quantitative)?
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121. Have all basic functions of Master Planning been defined?
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122. If substitutes have been appointed, have they been briefed on the Master Planning goals and received regular communications as to the progress to date?
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123. Is scope creep really all bad news?
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124. How would you define Master Planning leadership?
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125. How often are the team meetings?
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126. How do you gather Master Planning requirements?
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127. Has/have the customer(s) been identified?
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128. How do you build the right business case?
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129. The political context: who holds power?
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130. Does the scope remain the same?
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131. What critical content must be communicated – who, what, when, where, and how?
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Add up total points for this section: _____ = Total points for this section
Divided by: ______ (number of statements answered) = ______ Average score for this section
Transfer your score to the Master Planning Index at the beginning of the Self-Assessment.
