6 Part 6: V-Modell Reference Activities
6.3 Activities
6.3.2 Planning and Control
6.3.2.1 Coming to a Project Progress Decision
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Purpose
The project-specific decision gates agreed in the »Project Execution Plan in the »Project Manual will define quality gates where a decision has to be made on the further execution of the project based on the quality of the respective products that shall be submitted.
By submitting the respective products the project leader shall bring about a decision on the progress of the project. In the V-Modell the minimum number of the products that have to be submitted shall be explicitly defined by the number of decision gates. Deviations with regard to the products to be submitted shall be agreed in the »Project Execution Plan in the »Project Manual.
The responsibility for the decision on the progress of the project lies with the management above project level (»Executive or »Steering Committee ) and should be made in coordination with the project. This is usually done in a meeting.
Prior to this meeting at first the products of the decision gate to be discussed shall be submitted to the decision-makers. For the meeting, an agenda shall be drawn up, and the decision-makers shall be invited. In the course of the meeting, the already achieved project results and - if required - decision submittals shall be presented, a decision on the progress of the project has to be made, and the project progress shall be recorded. In the follow-up to this meeting the recorded project decision shall be sent once again to the decision makers for reasons of documentation (see Figure 5)].
The decision shall be documented in the product »Project Progress Decision. At this point framework conditions for the project may be formulated that will be adopted at the next project stage. Should the project progress decision be negative, it shall be determined in the individual case, whether the product models of the decision gate have to be resubmitted or if the project has to be fundamentally re-established or even completely abandoned.
Activity Flow
Figure 5: Activity Diagram "Coming to a Project Progress Decision"