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A Project Initiation Document (PID) is a crucial document that outlines the scope, objectives, stakeholders, risks, and overall approach of a project. It is the foundation upon which a successful project is built.

This 100% editable PowerPoint PID template is the perfect tool to create a professional and effective document that will help your project succeed. It is designed to provide a clear understanding of the project goals and objectives, including the business summary and benefits that the project is expected to deliver.

It will help you to identify the scope of the project, the key stakeholders who will be involved, and the project management approach, including project structure, roles and responsibilities, planning and control mechanisms, and reporting requirements.

The PID template includes a risk assessment and management plan, which will help you to identify and mitigate potential risks to the project, ensuring that your team is prepared for any unexpected challenges that may arise. With this PID template, you will have a roadmap to guide your project team throughout the project's lifecycle, helping you to stay on track and meet your project's goals and objectives.

By using this PowerPoint PID template, you can save time and effort in creating a professional-looking document that will impress stakeholders, increase visibility, and attract new clients.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to set your project up for success – download our PID template today and start creating your winning project initiation document!

Slides in this template:

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Project Summary – Brief description of what the project is about, what problem is trying to solve, This slide also contains high level description of benefits, delivery timeline, costs and risks.

Project Scope – The project scope defines the boundaries of the project. What jurisdictions are covered, the problems are being resolved, type of work involved, clients and teams impacted etc.

Business Benefits – These are the advantages and gains that are delivered to the business by the project. These benefits can be financial (Reduce costs or increase revenue), operational, risk associated, time to market and others.

RoadMap ( 6 Months, 12 Months, 18 Months, 24 Months ) – The Project Roadmap is a high level overview of the most important milestones and key deliverables of the project and it is presented on a timeline. It helps communicating the project objectives in terms of timeline and it set the expectations to the stakeholders involved.

Delivery Timelines ( 6 Months, 12 Months, 18 Months, 24 Months ) – The project delivery timeline gives an overview of the project deliverables presented in a chronological order, and indicates the estimated start and end date of each deliverable.

Board and Team Structure – Shows the lines of authority and reporting within the project team. These can be main Project Sponsors or Business\Local Sponsors and Business Unit Managers or SMEs as well as other stakeholders involved. This is critical to identify roles and responsibilities of each key member of the project team.

Risks – Identifying and analysing the project risks helps Project Managers to anticipate and mitigate potential disruptions and problems that might arise during the execution of the project. The objective of analysing the project risks is to minimise the magnitude of potential internal and external issues and establish a proactive rather than reactive approach to the management of the project.

Estimated Costs (Total and by Phase) - Project cost estimation is the process of forecasting the financial means needed to execute the project. Accounts for elements like labour (internal or external) , the necessary infrastructure that will be necessary to have in place ( Servers, software licences etc) or can be broken down into different stages of the project ( Requirements gathering, Development, Testing and QA).

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