PLANNING:
 
1 – Employs early warning systems to detect project problems?
2 – Assigns necessary work?
3 – Establishes guidelines?
4 – Communicates plans as they are developed (in various stages/phases)?
5 – Adjusts plans/ production rates as necessary?
6 – Manages priorities?
7 – Has a multi-disciplinary team?
8- Blocks off time during the workday to think and observe?
 
 

VISION:
 
1 – Knows the critical success factors (CSFs)?
2 – Knows what management wants?
3 – Understands the project’s risk picture?
4 – Uses estimates at completion to determine project’s performance?
5 – Understands the customer’s problem?
 
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT/AUTHORITY:
1 – Established a chain of command?
2 – Has a work breakdown structure (WBS)?
3 – Knows all subordinate project managers?
4 – Knows all integration team members?
5 – Has right people in positions?
6 – Knows staff’s workload?
7 – Knows staff’s weak spots?
8 – Assigns rewards/punishments to team, contractors, vendors?
9 – Had staff available when required?
10 – Effectively manages a diverse team?
Has authority to:
      – Stop the project?
      – Affect expectations, scope, budgets?
      – Choose/dismiss team members?
      -Match staffing levels to increases/ reductions in demand
14 – Has centralized responsibility between 2 to 3 people?
15 – Knows who the natural leaders are and go-to people by name?
16 – Asks team if they have what they need to do their job?
17 – Knows the number of full-time equivalent (FTEs)/ contractor employees on the project?