Project Analysis Tool

Project analysis tool

• A web-based tool in Tiki to formulate and communicate a potential project. Could be a project within an existing organisation (business case) or a potential new venture (like a business plan, but with a lot of flexibility)

Stakeholders

Entrepreneur (project initiator)

• Help user self-evaluate a project (structure your thoughts)
• Help communicate the project to get advice, funding, partners, etc.

Project analysis tool builders

• Serial entrepreneurs that are sharing their experience
• Counselors at economic development agencies
• Without programming, can build and adapt the tool

Advisers / Potential partners / investors

• Think "Dragons' Den"
• Can quickly get the info about the project
• Can ask questions (which the tool builders may want to incorporate in the next iteration of the tool)
• A structured process which makes comparing projects easier

What it could look like

• A wizard asks some questions
  • Free form text
  • Check boxes: Single or multi-select
  • Spreadsheets (which will be pre-filled with typical info)
• Depending on answers to some of the questions, some questions will be shown or hidden. Ex.: if this is a freelancing project, the section about HR will be hidden.

Example questions

1. What type of project is this?
   • New venture
   • Project within an existing organization
   • Expansion
2. Please describe the project in one line
3. What is the innovation level
   • This is a mature market
   • This is an emerging market
   • This is a future market
4. Legal structure
   • Not for profit
   • For profit
5. Products or Services
   • Products, small-scale
   • Products, mass-produced
   • Products, mass-customized
   • Services, personalized
   • Services, industrialized
6. Who is going to get value from this (so your customer) and how are you going to capture some of this value (and be sustainable)?

This could perhaps be the first step in building a Visual Programming tool. This would have the benefit of easily tying in to organizational data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_plan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis