Knutson states that proposal management in projects includes understanding the customer, establishing protocols, and isolating evaluation criteria (Knutson, 1996). Read Marshall Simmons’ blog post at the link below and return to comment on how critical proposal management is to the start of your projects.

 

What is a Project Proposal? A project proposal is a project management document that’s used to define the objectives and requirements of a project. It helps organizations and external project stakeholders agree on an initial project planning framework.

The main purpose of a project proposal is to get buy-in from decision-makers. That’s why a project proposal outlines your project’s core value proposition. It sells value to both internal and external project stakeholders. The intent of the proposal is to grab stakeholder and project sponsor attention. Once you have people’s attention, the next step is getting them excited about the project summary.

Getting into the heads of the audience you are writing the project proposal for is vital: you need to think like the project’s stakeholders to deliver a proposal that meets their needs.

We have created a free project proposal template for Word to help structure documents, so you don’t have to remember the process each time…Read More »

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Knutson, J. (1996). Proposal management: generating winning proposals, part 1. PM Network, 10(2), 5–9