Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish project parameters
- Strategic, operational, and tactical projects are identified and prioritised to optimise resources
- Clients and stakeholders are identified and communication channels formalised to facilitate immediate and appropriate contact
- User expectations are established to formulate project objectives and outcomes
- Time frames for intelligence projects are established and agreed to reflect client needs and investigation deadlines
- Potential implications and constraints are identified and addressed in the project management plan
- Client/stakeholders ownership is established to ensure involvement from the case officer and other users of the intelligence product
- Terminology is defined to ensure a common understanding between those involved
- The project is compared to other current projects to determine its priority in terms of its scope, importance, and resource requirements
- Develop a project management plan
- The scope of the project is determined, including the linkages between different possible entities, to form the intelligence plan
- Models are developed to direct and inform intelligence activities
- Aims, objectives and key issues are identified
- Strategies to achieve the objectives are specified
- Communication channels between the operatives, client, stakeholders and users are formalised to facilitate immediate contact
- Risk factors associated with the project are identified and strategies put in place to minimise risk
- Information is managed to facilitate its ready accessibility
- The project management plan is documented and approved
- Plan resource allocation
- The resources required for the project are estimated as accurately as possible given available information
- Negotiations are undertaken with decision-makers who have responsibility for resources to make them available when required
- A resource plan seeking commitment to expend resources is clearly and concisely written for decision-makers