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- Function: Project and delivery
- Function: Quality management
- Industry: Professional services
- Business situation: Established businesses
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23 workflow templates
Client document request tracker
When a client sends its first batch of records, the engagement manager gets the request list brought up to date: each item and period marked received, incomplete, mentioned only or missing, plus a short follow-up draft. The manager judges what is sufficient and approves anything sent.
- Starts it
- Engagement manager
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Client findings validation document
Before research becomes recommendations, the engagement lead sends the client one document: each material finding beside its evidence, the implication proposed and a clear request to confirm, correct or defer it. Nothing is added that the evidence does not show.
- Starts it
- Engagement lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Client report check log
Before a batch of client reports is released, the reporting lead gets a log, report by report, of household membership, periods, totals against the custodian statements, fee figures and missing sections, with every difference marked for correction. Nothing is released or sent.
- Starts it
- Reporting lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Completed engagement file review
The quality partner gets a worksheet that tests finished engagement files against the firm's own checklist: each item linked to the engagement letter, workpaper or sign-off that answers it, with any open finding, and the missing evidence listed. The quality partner confirms findings and assigns remediation.
- Starts it
- Quality partner
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Course sequence and workload review
A course lead revising an outline for the next cohort gets a module map: learning goals, prerequisites, activities and the instructor's own time estimates, with crowded weeks and coverage gaps marked and every gap written as a question. The course lead decides what changes.
- Starts it
- Course lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Deliverable issue completeness check
As a calculation, report or drawing package nears issue, the quality reviewer or document controller gets a checklist: missing review records, revisions that disagree between the index, the register and the title block, and citations of out-of-date calculations. Issue stays with the engineers.
- Starts it
- Quality reviewer
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Engagement margin review
Midway or at close, the partner and finance lead get one worksheet for an engagement: recorded time, agreed fee, billed to date and supplied costs by workstream, the gaps that limit it, and the questions the team must answer. No cost rate is invented.
- Starts it
- Finance analyst
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Engagement staffing plan
When several engagements want the same people, the resource lead sees the collision before kickoff: role needs against free days, leave and competing assignments, week by week, with two or three staffing options. The resource lead and partners choose.
- Starts it
- Resource lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Matter budget and status summary
The responsible partner sees one matter whole: scope, phases against their dates, the budget against fees to date and the projected total, a red, amber or green status with the rule behind it, risks and next actions with owners. Built from the time export and the matter plan, never a view on the merits.
- Starts it
- Matter lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 10 outputs
Meeting agenda, notes and follow-ups
Whoever runs the meeting walks in with an agenda where every topic has an outcome and a time, and walks out with a one-page record: what was decided, who owns each action and by when, and what is still open. Nothing reaches anyone until that person has read it and sends it.
- Starts it
- Team lead
- Brings
- notes
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Outgoing work sign-off log
Every item that needs a responsible attorney's sign-off before it leaves the firm sits in one log, in the order it has to go out: waiting, approved or returned, with the attorney's own note. Anything close to its date with no decision is flagged first. The log tracks status and never touches the legal substance.
- Starts it
- Operations manager
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Process map and bottleneck review
Map one process step by step: who does each step, how long work waits and how long it takes, where it is handed over and where it gets sent back. Then find the one step that caps how much gets finished, and what to try there first. The owner decides what changes.
- Starts it
- Operations lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Project handover readiness check
When a finished deliverable is ready for the team that will run it, the project manager brings one checklist against that team's own requirements: acceptance evidence, instructions, access, training, support owners and open items. The receiving owner accepts or names the conditions still to meet.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Project intake and capacity review
When a new initiative is proposed, the portfolio owner sees it scored on the business's own criteria beside the projects already committed, the delivery days it would use month by month, and what it would crowd out or push later. The owner accepts, defers or rejects it.
- Starts it
- Portfolio owner
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Project lessons review
When a phase or a project ends, the project manager gets one blameless review: whether it achieved what it was for, how scope, schedule and budget moved and why, whether the success measures were the right ones, and practice changes for the team to choose, each with an owner and a follow-up date.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 8 outputs
Project scope baseline
A project manager turns an approved brief into a draft scope baseline: the deliverables, what is excluded, the acceptance criteria for each deliverable, the constraints and the open questions for the sponsor. Nothing implied counts as scope until the sponsor says so.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Project status report
The lead of an internal project gets a status report the sponsor can read in two minutes: each workstream red, amber or green with the reason, what moved, who must clear each blocker, the decisions needed and the dates at risk. No milestone is called done without evidence, and the lead confirms every status.
- Starts it
- Project lead
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Reviewer comments into one resolution list
The owner of a document that came back from several reviewers gets one checklist: every proposed edit and comment, grouped by section, with clashes between reviewers set side by side. Every item stays open until the owner decides it, and the document itself is never touched.
- Starts it
- Document owner
- Brings
- export, notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Schedule recovery options
When a committed milestone slips, the project manager brings the sponsor two to four ways back: what each changes, the dates it gives every later milestone and dependency, and the assumptions it rests on. The sponsor chooses; delivery leads confirm the dates.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Scope change impact review
When new work turns up in a project plan, the project manager gets one review: every deliverable compared with the agreed baseline, each addition marked approved or not, its estimated effect on effort, cost and the end date, and the decision the sponsor has to make. The sponsor accepts or declines each one.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document, pasted text
- Gets
- 6 outputs
SOP exception capture
Turn what your most experienced person does with the awkward cases into an exception register for one procedure. Once the owner approves it, every colleague handles those cases the way your best person does.
- Starts it
- Operations lead
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 2 outputs
Spreadsheet check before sharing
Before a model or schedule goes to a client, a lender or a board, the sender gets one report on it: every error value, short total, buried assumption and hidden row pinned to its cell, each with a fix or a question, and a plain list of what was not checked. Nothing in the workbook is changed.
- Starts it
- Finance manager
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Stakeholder and decision rights map
Before kickoff, the project manager holds one map of everyone the project touches: each group placed by influence and interest, every key decision with exactly one accountable owner, the decision makers still missing, and who hears what, when and from whom. The sponsor confirms every decision right.
- Starts it
- Project manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs