[Music] today we're talking about what are project deliverables we hear that term all the time on projects so whether you're the project manager asking your team members what the status of their deliverables are or the team member with your project manager asking you for the status or maybe even you asking your other team members what the status of their deliverables are they're very important in projects so we want to take a look today at what the project deliverables are so first of all a deliverable generically is something produced or provided as a result of a process so if we look at a process we get inputs and even the input into the process could be deliverables it could be taking some form of information some type of documents from the project a plan maybe even some equipment uh money or even software that's not all the different types but these are just examples of input that you could take into the process and for the output you may get something like a consultation you may get a project plan some type of tool or app or even software test results or maybe even a contract so if you look at these again these are just examples but in a project you're producing deliverables that are either a product or a service and with those you want to be sure that you get a due date for each deliverable and you want to make sure it's specific and measurable so let's take a look further at the project so on a project we have the Project Life Cycle and a product life cycle so the project life cycle produces project management deliverables and they look something like maybe even a project plan some type of reports or even your meeting minutes again these are not all just some examples but your product life cycle that's the life cycle that produces the different products uh the main deliverable from your project so that could be something like Hardware software again some type of app U maybe even a contract or assessment results so here's some tips so with your deliverables you want to be sure to track the due dates because that's what helps get the progress of your project and make sure it's completed on time and successful you also want to maybe track these as Milestones so when the deliverables are completed you mark that Milestone is completed and then number two is measure the outcome measure the outcome of those deliverables and make sure they meet the specs um that's required of the project and then the third one is my favorite is to use an online software tool that helps simplify things not only for you but also your team members and here's why so if you have all the deliverables from not only a Project Life Cycle but a product life cycle and you have not only deliverables that you have to complete as a project manager but also all of the ones for the team members so if you have it in an online software tool it makes it more simple to track it makes it also easier for your team members to report their status and also know what's due so if you need a tool that can help you with your project deliverables then sign up for our software now at projectmanager.com