This week's tweets continued looking at project initiation tasks and how to start a project to ensure success. Here are the ten tips:

• The project initiation phase can vary depending on the SDLC to be employed. Thus one of the first tasks should be to confirm the SDLC
• When confirming the SDLC to be used determine if the team will need training or extra support particularly if the SDLC is new.
• As part of project initiation the various plans you use to manage the project should be created.
• The first plan should be the project management plan. This defines how the project is executed, monitored, and controlled.
• The project management plan also helps to define how the other plans, communication, risk management, resource management etc. are created
• During initiation you should start determining how requirements will be gathered and documented. This also depends on the SDLC
• Initiation is a good time to schedule the requirements sessions or interviews. Getting those on people's calendars early is important.
• If the organization has a PMO, meet with them early during initiation to confirm what project management standards apply to the project.
• During initiation get the budget tracking mechanism's in place. If you wait it becomes harder to track expenses correctly.
• During initiation you should create the communications, resource, risk, and budget management plans. Check with the PMO for templates etc.