Project Management Success Criteria Template

You can determine whether or not the project was successful by defining success criteria beforehand.

Use this template to help you record, document, and align stakeholders on important project components as a best practice.

Glosary:

Product requirements: Here, you can add the product specifications in accordance with what you and the principal sponsor and other stakeholders have decided.

Priority requirements: Here, the stakeholders can indicate what their priorities are.

Goal metrics: you can specify which are the main goal metrics and how the team will measure them.

Timeline: this is where you can specify the timeline for the project.

Team: please write down details about the team involved in the project and their responsibilities.

Assigning an owner to every key result allows everybody to know who’s responsible for what, adds clarity, and increases accountability.

Potential project’s changes approval plan: To avoid misunderstandings later on in the project, this is a crucial topic that you must consider. 

Sign-offs: last but not least, it is very important every sponsor and stakeholder accept the terms of the Success Criteria Template.