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Identify project deliverables and success criteria

Identify project deliverables and success criteria

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Identify project deliverables and success criteria

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- [Instructor] Put simply, project deliverables are the results that a project delivers. To determine whether deliverables are what they're supposed to be, you need some way to measure them. Those measurements are called success criteria. Deliverables can be tangible, like a building, a new product, or a new service. They can also be more abstract, like improved results, say a decrease in reported errors. Deliverables help you define the project scope, which basically means what is and isn't included in the project. Deliverables then help you measure progress while your project is underway. To document project deliverables, start by listing the end deliverables. That is the results your project delivers at the end of the project. For example, one end deliverable for the scheduling project would be "new scheduling system and processes launched". Next, document intermediate deliverables, which are delivered during the course of the project. An intermediate deliverable for the scheduling…

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