Roles
This tool helps project teams assign responsibility for tasks during execution.
What is a RACI matrix?
An uncertain event that may or may not occur during a project and can have an effect on the outcome.
What is a Risk?
At least 3 elements of an effective status report.
What are the High-Level Status, Accomplishments, In Progress items, Next Steps, and/or Risks/Mitigation?
Everything goes live at the same time.
What is a Big Bang rollout?
This massive infrastructure project connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and required complex risk and schedule management.
What is the Panama Canal?
The individual who does the work on a task.
Who is Responsible?
Double Jeopardy!
Something that is accepted as true without proof for the purpose of planning and decision-making.
What is an Assumption?
What is a Stand Up Meeting?
New features are rolled out gradually, rather than all at once.
What is a Phased rollout?
This iconic U.S. construction project during the Great Depression became a landmark example of large‑scale execution and resource coordination.
What is the Hoover Dam?
Who is accountable?
This document ensures the right information reaches the right stakeholders at the right time during execution.
What is the Project Communications Plan?
Double Jeopardy!
The recommended LCPS division to partner with to develop stakeholder feedback and engagement strategies.
What is the Division of Research, Assessment, and School Improvement (RASI)?
The new system is deployed alongside the existing one for a period of time.
What is a Parallel rollout?
A multi-nation construction project that produced the largest single structure humans ever put into space.
What is the International Space Station?
The individual who provides input on a task.
Who is Consulted?
These are the tangible outputs produced as project work is completed.
What are deliverables?
The purpose of the Sogolytics platform in stakeholder engagement.
What is conducting surveys?
This rollout strategy releases a product or system to a small group of users first to identify issues before expanding to everyone.
What is a Pilot rollout?
A high‑profile healthcare technology project led by Elizabeth Holmes that failed due to lack of scientific validation, poor oversight, and misleading stakeholders.
What is the Thernos Blood Testing System?
The individual who needs updates on a task.
Who is Informed?
A tool for determining if a project is ready for launch or needs additional work before going live.
What is Let's Talk?
Allows users to choose whether or not to use a new feature or system.
What is an Opt-In rollout?
A high‑investment initiative led by Mark Zuckerberg that struggled with adoption and clarity of purpose, leading to scaling back and reassessment.
What is the Metaverse?