Complete Table 4-6 to define your project’s business objectives. Remember to make them SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, time-based).

Complete Table 4-7 to characterize your project’s stakeholders. Determine which stakeholders carry more weight when resolving conflicting success criteria and priorities.

Select an appropriate decision rule and decision-making process for making strategic project decisions.

Complete Table 4-8 to determine which of the five dimensions are constraints, drivers, and degrees of freedom for your project. Draw a flexibility diagram like that in Figure 4-2.

Complete Table 4-9 to list and prioritize your project’s success criteria, relating each to the pertinent business objective and to the stakeholder(s) to whom it is important. To prioritize the success criteria within a business objective, distribute 100 points among them to indicate their relative importance. If you have multiple success criteria for each stakeholder and several key stakeholders for each business objective, use a separate copy of Table 4-9 for each business objective.

Identify stakeholders having conflicting success criteria. Based on your stakeholder analysis and your decision-making process, resolve these conflicts.

Based on your business objectives, success criteria, constraints, and drivers, what actions might you take if events like those described on Table 4-10 occur? Hint: Consider which of your five project dimensions are flexible and which are not.