A "toolkit" for information technology proposal and project documentation

Information systems development project management requires the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet success criteria. Success criteria include completing the project on time, on budget, of acceptable quality and meeting or exceeding all client requirements. Of increasing importance to project success is a comprehensive documentation strategy that provides a blueprint and earned value-added outputs from the various tasks occurring during the project lifecycle. A comprehensive modular process comprised of four domains, seven phases and sixteen workflows has been developed incorporating the best-of-breed principles from current research and lessons learned. Each of the sixteen workflows is comprised of 3-6 tasks each having inputs, outputs, techniques, roles, acceptance and quality assurance criteria, references to sources of further information and examples. Each of the output statements focus on information important to stakeholders in the project and provide earned-value to the client.