With the pandemic effects on project offices, supply chains, capital funding, customers, and cultural changes (how long before it's the same again?), a lot of projects will shut down ... permanently. Their business case crushed in the effects
Rebaseline in two steps:
- Declare the "old" project ended; collect the actuals and variances and record them in the ledger. Collect all the inventory for future use: WIP; finished but not delivered product
- Invent a new project; transfer in all the WIP and other inventory. Start a new plan with the checklist below
- Forget your baseline ... that's all in the history file. Plan a restart as if new
- Plan for a go-forward velocity that is going to be slower, slogging through a myriad of restrictions, broken links, missing supplies, etc
- Plan to spend on technology that you probably didn't think you needed before, but you do now
- Re-calibrate customer needs and wants, functions, features, convenience, safety, security (how did Zoom zoom into our lives?)
- Can you visit your customer? Should you visit you customer? Is a virtual visit good enough to understand the requirements?
- Factor in the changed culture .... some values have changed for what you're inventing, I'll bet
- Evaluate risks with a revised calibration .... where does social fear factor in?
- Plan for a medical protocol overlay. Masks, social distancing etc?
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