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Team Tip
“If you really want to do your project, dedicate your best team to the pilot, even if they will not be involved in the full project.”
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PR
“Performing a pilot project can provide a public relations advantage – will you get some press recognition by doing something innovative?”
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Success
“Performing a pilot project can provide a public relations advantage – will you get some press by doing something innovative?”
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Beta vs. Pilot
“Pilot projects can be confused with technical betas. The difference between the two is that pilots encompass the business with specific measurable criteria.”
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Risk Identification
“Sometimes a pilot project serves to identify or manage risks that will be faced in a full scale project.”
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Tools
“Consider the use of logs, templates, performing test results, surveys, and documenting perceptions, requirements and preferences during the pilot”
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Requirements
“It is very common not to have all of the requirements for performing a technical pilot. Many of the details not previously identified will be discovered during the pilot”
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Period
“Although a pilot can go on for any period of time, the pilot’s duration should be defined within the project charter or whatever initiated and defined the pilot”
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Goals
“Should goals be scaled down versions of the goals of a full project? Maybe, but goals should be uniquely specific to the pilot.”
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POC - Test
“Proof of concept (POC) or test cases can be used within a pilot project”
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Workshops
“Pilot project plans should contain workshops -- workshops should gather input from all stakeholders, the various levels of management, and the user community”
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Sales Approach
“Although a pilot project is an experiment, one may find that the best approach is a sales pitch.”
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Negative Pilots
“Although not common, the use of a pilot project can be used to prove a “negative” project as well. For example, a project to prove a scenario of increased competition or market decrease.”
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Lessons Learned
“Lessons learned in the pilot should ALWAYS be documented at the end for later review at the full scale project kick off”
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Mission Statement
“Part of a well planned pilot project has a mission statement with a goal – The purpose of our pilot project is to identify opportunities in building design requirements and determine new standards and codes that effect energy efficiency. The goal of the
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