Cost Plus A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition. Gerardus Blokdyk

What are the compelling stakeholder reasons for embarking on Cost Plus?

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      19. How does the Cost Plus manager ensure against scope creep?

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      20. Has a high-level ‘as is’ process map been completed, verified and validated?

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      21. If substitutes have been appointed, have they been briefed on the Cost Plus goals and received regular communications as to the progress to date?

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      22. How will the Cost Plus team and the group measure complete success of Cost Plus?

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      23. What scope do you want your strategy to cover?

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      24. What customer feedback methods were used to solicit their input?

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      25. Scope of sensitive information?

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      26. Has a project plan, Gantt chart, or similar been developed/completed?

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      27. What are the record-keeping requirements of Cost Plus activities?

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      28. What would be the goal or target for a Cost Plus’s improvement team?

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      29. How did the Cost Plus manager receive input to the development of a Cost Plus improvement plan and the estimated completion dates/times of each activity?

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      30. How do you manage scope?

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      31. What key stakeholder process output measure(s) does Cost Plus leverage and how?

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      32. What happens if Cost Plus’s scope changes?

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      33. What scope to assess?

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      34. Where can you gather more information?

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      35. Are required metrics defined, what are they?

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      36. How do you build the right business case?

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      37. How and when will the baselines be defined?

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      38. What is the definition of success?

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      39. What defines best in class?

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      40. Is there a critical path to deliver Cost Plus results?

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      41. Have all of the relationships been defined properly?

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      42. Has a Cost Plus requirement not been met?

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      43. Is the work to date meeting requirements?

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      44. What is the scope of Cost Plus?

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      45. Why are you doing Cost Plus and what is the scope?

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      46. Is Cost Plus linked to key stakeholder goals and objectives?

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      47. Is Cost Plus currently on schedule according to the plan?

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      48. What are the core elements of the Cost Plus business case?

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      49. Is scope creep really all bad news?

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      50. Has/have the customer(s) been identified?

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      51. The political context: who holds power?

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      52. What is out of scope?

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      53. What gets examined?

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      54. What is in scope?

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      55. How was the ‘as is’ process map developed, reviewed, verified and validated?

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      56. What are the rough order estimates on cost savings/opportunities that Cost Plus brings?

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      57. Who defines (or who defined) the rules and roles?

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      58. What was the context?

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      59. Is the scope of Cost Plus defined?

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      60. How are consistent Cost Plus definitions important?

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      61. Who is gathering information?

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      62. Who approved the Cost Plus scope?

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      63. How would you define the culture at your organization, how susceptible is it to Cost Plus changes?

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      64. How do you gather Cost Plus requirements?

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      65. Is the Cost Plus scope complete and appropriately sized?

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      66. Do you have a Cost Plus success story or case study ready to tell and share?

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      67. Has anyone else (internal or external to the group) attempted to solve this problem or a similar one before? If so, what knowledge can be leveraged from these previous efforts?

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      68. What intelligence can you gather?

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      69. What are the Roles and Responsibilities for each team member and its leadership? Where is this documented?

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      70. How would you define Cost Plus leadership?

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      71. Have specific policy objectives been defined?

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      72. Have the customer needs been translated into specific, measurable requirements? How?

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      73. What are the tasks and definitions?

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      74. What knowledge or experience is required?

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      75. What sources do you use to gather information for a Cost Plus study?

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      76. Has the improvement team collected the ‘voice of the customer’ (obtained feedback – qualitative and quantitative)?

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