TABLE OF CONTENTS In Chapter 5, you defined the project mission statement, which was a statement of the desired outcome(s) for the project. You also selected the best solution based on various parameters. Based on both the desired outcome and the solution selected, you can now begin to define or identify several high-level project objectives. These objectives should identify what you want to accomplish, not necessarily how you re going to accomplish it. However, you will also begin to identify, at a high level, how you ll accomplish this project. The details of how to accomplish your project s objectives are discussed in detail in the next chapter.
The first step in identifying project objectives or major deliverables is to create a project objective statement. It s similar to the project mission statement, but it should be much more specific to your project because it should incorporate the problem, the mission, and the selected solution (see Chapter 5). Here s a great rule of thumb about creating any of these statements (problem, mission, or objective): if you can t state it clearly and concisely (50 words or so) you probably don t have a good understanding of what the project is trying to accomplish. Again, this doesn t need to take days or weeks to accomplish, but if you can t describe the high-level objectives or deliverables quickly and in 50 words or less, you may need to revisit some of the steps in Chapter 5. For example, Replace all servers used...
