This document provides a checklist for a project team to use to ensure they have adequately addressed key areas important for a project's success. The checklist includes operating agreements, critical success factors, plans and activities, monitoring and measures, schedule and milestones, roles and responsibilities, authority and autonomy, purpose and outcomes, customers and needs, goals and deliverables, and project scope and definition. The team is to assign a percentage completion to each area to track their progress in establishing the necessary foundations for effective project work.