The System of Delivery

The 8 Performance Domains

The eight interdependent areas every project moves through at once. Each domain page breaks down what it means, the outcomes to expect, how to check them, and how it connects to the rest.

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1

Stakeholder

The continuous work of identifying everyone who can affect or be affected by the project and keeping them productively engaged from initiation through closeout.…

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2

Team

The work of turning a collection of assigned individuals into a high-performing team, and of spreading leadership so it doesn't all rest on the…

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3

Development Approach and Life Cycle

Choosing how the work will be done — predictive, adaptive, or a hybrid — and shaping the project's phases and delivery cadence to fit.…

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4

Planning

The ongoing work of organizing and coordinating everything the project needs to deliver — scope, schedule, budget, resources, procurement, communications, and risk — into…

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5

Project Work

The engine room of the project: setting up and running the processes, resources, procurements, and communications that let the team actually do the work…

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6

Delivery

Making sure the project actually produces the scope, quality, and outcomes it was funded to achieve — and that stakeholders accept and value what…

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7

Measurement

Knowing where the project really stands and turning that into timely decisions. Measurement is about generating actionable information — reliable, forward-looking, and acted upon…

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8

Uncertainty

Working deliberately with everything the project cannot fully know — risk, ambiguity, complexity, and volatility — so threats are reduced and opportunities are captured.…

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