The project request activity is the where new projects originate.  Project requests may arrive from many different sources including Operations, Business Owners and IT.  The project request activity focuses on collecting and documenting the request, vetting it against business goals and drivers, ranking it and approving or denying based on the information collected.

Sub Activities

Although most organizations will have some variants, project request activities typically include the following:

• Capturing requests.
• Prioritizing requests.
• Estimating requests.
• Defining project selection criteria.
• Approving or denying requests.
• Reporting on project selection process.