1) Define your goal

2) Set out your strategy

3) Plan out your problems

4) Build in reserves

5) Relate it to timeframe

6) Create a master plan

7) Action today

1) Drive

2) Persuasion

3) Perception

4) Strong ego need to win

5) Respond to failure with optimism

6) Confidence in your own ability

7) Know what you inability will permit you to do (know your limitation)

8) Plan strategy and measure performance continually

9) Short term view when measuring performance and Long term view when measuring success

10) Final destination is clear, measurable, specific in time quality and quantity values

11) Immediately accurate and objectively urgent in all deliberations

12) Choose people to assist them with the strength they do not have to fill in the gaps

1. What am I trading?

2. What am I forfeiting?

3. What are the uncertainties?

4. What are the guarantees or penalties?

5. What are the terms?

6. What can cause failure?

7. Can I fully perform?

8. Can they fully perform?

9. What are the buffer?

10. What  if we overestimate?

11. What if they overestimate?

12. Can cost expand?

13. Can percentages decreases?

14. Are there an exit points?

15. Are there any condition for mutual withdrawal?

16. Are there any outside influences?

17. Who exactly is in charge?

18. What are the ongoing obligation?

19. Are there any upper and lower limits?

20. Are the personalities concerned fully committed?

21 Are all points of concern, agreed, written, dated signed and noted.

I recently took on an website project as a means of putting together some of the side skills I am picking up, you know XHTML, CSS, PNG and other alphabet soup. However before you can build a professional site, it is important to start with planning. Here are the items I picked up on planning and come back for more as I go through the complete workflow.

Here are the steps in the planning phase.

Objective: Why are we building this site? Who is it for?

Competitive Analysis: Not just direct competition of the business, but also from a site design perspective who do we want to benchmark against.

User definition: Who is going to be using the site?

Sitemaps: what will people be doing when they get to the site?

--> Process Flow: What information is going to be provided?

--> User maps: How will it be accessed? How will it be displayed?

Elements common to all pages e.g. Footers, Logo and Call to Action

Wireframes

2 types of wireframes – planning wireframes (use PowerPoint or Visio); Graphic design wireframes (Photoshop PSD files)

Typography – Font, Color, Layout

Technology:

Static content – XHTML or Flash or Silverlight

Images – PNG, JPEG or GIF

Video Animation – Flash Silverlight

(Hosting for Video Animation is another issue you will have to deal with)

Downloadable files? – pdf or word

Database – MS-SQL, MySQL or XML/XLT

Scripting Language – JavaScript, ASP.Net, Java

Overall, remember the best tool is the one you know best.

OVERALL PROJECT WORKLOW (Based on what  I know now :) )

Planning –> Resource gathering –> Building –> Testing –> Repeat.