Project kick off meeting

6.3 Project kick off meeting
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Organize and conduct a formal project kick off meeting to initiate the project. The participation of other project groups/ head of support functions like HR, QA, etc is optional and can be invited by invitation as the case may be. In the kick off meeting the project’s proposed commitments like technical goals/ objectives/ schedule/ resources/ processes, etc., are discussed.

• Roles and responsibilities with respect to project for every member attending the meeting should be clarified
• The commitments made to the individuals and groups external to the organization, if any, are discussed with Senior Management and recorded for addition to the Project plan. This will include the commitment received from the person managing the resource pool regarding the resource requirement based on the estimation.
• Critical dependencies between Project and the support groups are identified and discussed.