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Project kickoff checklist
Before the kickoff
a kickoff you prepared is half runIn the meeting, in this order
the agenda is the checklistWithin 48 hours after
the follow-up is where kickoffs dieWhy this order works
The meeting is the middle, not the start. Scope, charter, and stakeholder list exist before anyone books a room.
Every agenda item has a leader. An item nobody leads becomes a discussion nobody ends.
The 48-hour follow-up is the real kickoff. The summary with owners and dates is what people actually work from.
Park, do not debate. Anything that threatens the clock gets parked with an owner and a date.
Run this before every project, even small ones. The projects that skip kickoff are the ones that later need a rescue meeting, and the rescue meeting is always longer.
Everything saves in this browser only. Print it, or save as PDF, and it becomes the kickoff summary you send.
Prefer paper? Download the blank sheet as a PDF. The thinking behind it, and the nine tools it works with, is in The Project.
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