Define Project Goals and Objectives

Use

The purpose of this task is to identify overall company goals and objectives for the implementation and document how they will be measured.

Examples of project-related goals are:

These goals need to represent a high-level commitment from the project sponsor and company management.

Procedure

  1. Determine specific project implementation goals.
    Meet with company executives or the project sponsor and determine specific project implementation goals for the whole project, and the project team members as a group, or individually.

Ask the company’s sponsor and senior executives why they decided to purchase SAP software. This information may also be obtained from the SAP Sales Executives or the SAP Consulting Manager.

  1. Document these goals and communicate them to the team.
    Compensation-related incentives could then be related directly to the achievement of the project or individual goals.

Result

Defined project implementation goals and objectives