Project Planning Framework - Give Projects a Real Shot at Completion

1. PROJECT PLANNING
Framework
Give Projects a
Real Shot at Completion

2. Know where you stand at the outset!
More specific expertise and actions will be required at every
step. This is a framework only based on trying out our product
visioning experience for a halal wealth creation project we are
working on called The Millionaire Mohsin.
By following the steps below Insha'Allah we will begin to know
very quickly where we stand and what is missing in our quest to
complete the project.
Once we know what we need and what we have, to fill the gaps
we can Insha'Allah start looking for the resources we need.

3. Project Planning Actionable Steps

4. Project Planning Actionable Steps
Step 1. RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE
THIS STEP:
Knowing that we have
already identified a pressing to be added Insha'Allah
need in the community based
on our desire to observe
ASWT's natural laws through
observing his commands and
prohibitions, (really the first
step)

5. Project Planning Actionable Steps
Step 2. RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE
THIS STEP:
Name the Project (for
example lets say we are to be added Insha'Allah
calling it a networking project)

6. Project Planning Actionable Steps
Step 3. RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE
THIS STEP:
Describe the project goal in a
few words (eg. my choice of to be added Insha'Allah
words is: an on-line service
that facilitates the marriage
between saalihaat projects
and teams and the support of
project teams such that they
achieve success)

7. Project Planning Actionable Steps
Step 4. RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE
THIS STEP:
Stakeholder group
identification and to be added Insha'Allah
requirements
Open a google docs page
listing all the stakeholder
groups (initiators, end-users,
investors, developers /
constructors) in this project
and a separate sheet for
each stakeholder group.

8. Step 4 continued
The next thing we need to do is to get feedback from
representatives of each stakeholder group as to what they think
about our idea, why it would serve them and what their
measures of success (kpis) would be for each idea. Since I
already did some interviews and probably you have as well, we
can add our findings to these google docs.

9. Project Planning Actionable Steps
Step 5. Once we get RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE
stakeholder feedback THIS STEP:
sufficient to create the
nucleaus of visions, we need to be added Insha'Allah
to work on 3 different visions:
a) Product/Result Vision
(marketing message and
deliverables)
-key performance indices
-key achievement indices
-create a balanced scorecard

10. Step 5 continued
b) Operational Vision (a picture of the strategies/systems as if
they are completely ready and producing the product/result)
-we list each system/component and what it does, how it does it
and why; and how it relates to other systems
-we ought to engage experts to help define the systems
because they have greater insight

11. Step 5 continued
c) Building of Operation Visions (how are we going to make the
operational vision into reality; this includes identifying the
resources needed and the strategy to get the resources and
engage the resources). I call them visions because this will be
an iterative process whereby we engage resources to engage
resources to engage resources until such a time as the
resources are all there and are working towards the aim.
-we identify the resources required to build it so this way we
can cost out and seek out the resources needed
-we assign the resourcing of each system or assign the
resourcing of the resourcing (until we find someone who can
actually resource)
-criteria for builders (cost, expertise, time)

12. Step 5 co
d) Building of Operation Forecasting/Budgeting
-engage experts to help us figure out how much time and $ will
it cost to resource, engage people, build components, test
components, progressively integrate them and launch them.
e) Running of Operation Forecasting/Budgeting
-engage experts to help us figure out how much time and $ will
it cost to keep the operation going as we have envisioned it.

13. Operation Building Steps

14. OPERATION BUILDING STEPS
Step 6. We continue RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE
resourcing until we have all THIS STEP:
the resources needed for
building all the parts of the to be added Insha'Allah
operation.
Resources include money,
subject expertise, practical
experience in planning, co-
ordinating, delivering results,
reporting, financial, etc.

15. OPERATION BUILDING STEPS
Step 7. As money and RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE
resources are confirmed, THIS STEP:
-strategically commission the to be added Insha'Allah
building of the parts of the
operation (defined in earlier
steps)
-select builders based on the
criteria we developed

16. Step 7 continued
-marketing machine is one of the first parts we want to build to
collect information and see whether there is a market for the
product/service
-play a key role in demanding deliverables and meeting our
payment commitments
-check how the systems are interworking together

17. Operation Startup And
Measurement Steps

18. OPERATION STARTUP AND
MEASUREMENT STEPS
Step 8. We strategically RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE
startup portions of the THIS STEP:
operation
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19. OPERATION STARTING AND
MEASUREMENT STEPS
Step 9. We measure the RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE
operation using a balanced THIS STEP:
scorecard
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20. OPERATION STARTING AND
MEASUREMENT STEPS
Step 10. We make regular RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE
adjustments. THIS STEP:
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