Management Work Product

Definitions

Management Work Product

a work product that may be produced during the management activity

Management Set of Work Products

the cohesive collection of management work products

Work Products

The OPF repository contains the following set of predefined management work products:

• Budget,
  which documents the costs associated with the endeavor.
• Component Schedule,
  which documents the master schedule of all important planned dates for a major component.
• Contract,
  which models a mutually binding agreement that formally specifies the obligations of the development and customer organizations.
• Delivery Statement,
  which is the formal document of the work products being delivered and accepted.
• Documentation Plan,
  which documents an endeavor’s approach to producing and maintaining documentation.
• Employee Evaluation,
  which reports the results of the evaluation of an employee playing one or more roles on an endeavor or at a center.
• Interview Checklist,
  which is a checklist that is used when interviewing a person during the hiring task.
• Interview Report,
  which is the results of interviewing a person during the hiring task.
• Job Description,
  which describes the roles and responsibilities associated with a single job title.
• Management Plan,
  which documents the top-level plans for managing an endeavor.
• Master Schedule,
  which documents the master schedule of all important planned dates on an endeavor.
• Mission Statement,
  which documents the mission of the endeavor or center.
• Organization Chart,
  which is a diagram that documents the composition of either the development organization or the project team in terms of its component teams and the aggregation relationships between them.
• Request For Proposal (RFP),
  which announces the customer organization’s intention to potential bidders to purchase an application or service.
• Statement Of Work (SOW),
  which models a narrative description of the work products and services to be delivered by the development organization to the customer organization under the contract.
• Status Report,
  which regularly reports the status of the endeavor.
• Team Charter, which documents a team and the mandates its formation.
• Team Schedule, which documents the schedule for a single team during an endeavor.
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), which documents the decomposition of the work in terms of activities and tasks to be performed on the project.

Guidelines

• Different endeavors require different processes, which in turn will require different management work products.
• Every endeavor does not require the production of every management work product.
• Select only those management work products that are appropriate for the endeavor.
• Selected management work products should be:
  • Relevant.
  • Useful.
  • Usable.
  • Cost-effective.