Posted by Kevin Brady on Sat 7th July 2007 at 06:02 PM, Filed in Key Document Templates,  Templates

Please click on this link to download FREE template

One of the most important project documentation milestone to achieve on any project, has to be the sign-off of a Test Strategy document. This typically contains the testing methodology and acceptance criteria, vital if you want to define the end point for a project and the starting point for maintenance and support to begin.

If your running a software house, getting a clear end to a project is one of the keys to profiatable software development. 

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Mon 27th November 2006 at 11:01 PM, Filed in Key Document Templates,  Risk & Issue Management,  Templates

Please click on the following links and download your FREE Risk Log & Issue Log

These template logs contain sanitised content from a real project so that you can get a feel for how to use them as part of an effective set of risk and issue management processes.

During the rest of this week, I will be putting up a number of posts explaining the mysteries of Risk and Issue management (with reference to these useful project artefacts) and why it’s so important if you intend running a project for success and not failure.

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Wed 25th October 2006 at 09:00 AM, Filed in Key Document Templates,  Templates

Please click here to download your FREE IT Project Status Report Template

I recently carried out some searches via Google to see if I could find some fit for purpose IT Project Status Report templates. I found to my dismay mostly one-page Word documents with a few headings, poor formats and many essential headings missing. None of these really explained what you needed to write under each heading in terms of content and style.

The attached Project Status Report is in fact a real report issued to a client, which has been changed so that Clarety keeps to its client confidentiality commitments.

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Fri 20th October 2006 at 09:00 AM, Filed in Templates

Click here to download a FREE EXAMPLE CONSULTANTS SERVICE CONTRACT

A regular visitor to this site asked me for some help in obtaining an example of a good consultant’s Service Contract, which he could use to close a direct deal with a potential client.

So, here is a copy of the kind of personal service contract I use with UK clients and under UK legal jurisdiction. This contract has most, if not all, of the IR35 friendly clauses you would typically see in a standard PCG Contract, plus additional clauses covering payment of earned fees and the all important exit aspects of any consultancy contract.

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Posted by Kevin Brady on Mon 4th September 2006 at 02:48 AM, Filed in Key Document Templates,  Project Management,  Templates

Click here to download a FREE PRINCE II PID template. I have stripped out project specific references from a ‘real’ PID to keep much of the text used in the original in order to give valuable insights into how to compile this important document.  I felt this would be better than using a more traditional PRINCE 2 Product Description Style Template. For an example of such a template please refer to post - FREE PRINCE 2 Product Description Template

The question I often get asked by IT Professionals some of whom are surprisingly PRINCE 2 accredited is:-

What is a Project Initiation Document and why is it important to me ?

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