All project actions yield a variety of outputs, or some already available documents are used for the value delivery of the project. An artifact here can be described as a document, template, plan, deliverable of a project, or output of a specific process.
Project artifacts should be tailored according to the nature and characteristics of the project by taking the applicable development approach into consideration. So the answer to the question of artifact usage in each phase or performance domain of a project is strongly related to the outcome of tailoring processes. Selecting the appropriate artifact for a project or organization is done with efficient tailoring.
The commonly used artifacts in project management are listed below; however, they are not limited to them.
Project Management Artifacts List
PROJECT PLANS
- Change control plan
- Communications management plan
- Cost management plan
- Iteration plan
- Procurement management plan
- Project management plan
- Quality management plan
- Release plan
- Requirements management plan
- Resource management plan
- Risk management plan
- Scope Management Plan
- Schedule Management Plan
- Stakeholder Engagement Plan
- Test Plan
STRATEGY ARTIFACTS
- Business case
- Business model canvas
- Project brief
- Project charter
- Project vision statement
- Roadmap
HIERARCHY CHARTS
- Organizational breakdown structure
- Product breakdown structure
- Resource breakdown structure
- Risk breakdown structure
- Work breakdown structure
AGREEMENTS AND CONTRACTS
- Fixed-price contracts
- Cost-reimbursable contracts
- Time and materials (T&M)
- Indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ)
VISUAL DATA AND INFORMATION
- Affinity diagram
- Burn Charts
- Cause-and-effect diagram
- Cumulative flow diagram (CFD)
- Cycle time chart
- Dashboards
- Flowchart
- Gantt chart
- Histogram
- Information radiator
- Lead time chart
- Prioritization matrix
- Project schedule network diagram
- Requirements traceability matrix
- Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
- Scatter diagram
- S-curve
- Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
- Story map
- Throughput chart
- Use case
- Value stream map
- Velocity chart
REPORTS
- Quality Report
- Risk Report
- Status Reports
OTHER ARTIFACTS
- Activity list
- Bid documents
- Project calendar
- Requirements documentation
- Project team charter
- User story
- Metrics