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Kickoff meeting

Meaning in project management, with examples

/ˈkɪkɔːf ˌmiːtɪŋ/nounCore term

In project management, kickoff meeting means: The first meeting of a project, where the team and key stakeholders meet to agree on goals, scope, roles, plan and ways of working.

In Turkish: başlangıç toplantısı, proje açılış toplantısı, kick-off toplantısı

How it is used

Very common in agencies, consulting and IT projects. People hold, run or attend a kickoff meeting, and often just say “the kickoff”. There can be an internal kickoff and a separate one with the client.

Example sentences

  1. The kickoff meeting with the client is on Monday, so please read the brief before then.

  2. At the kickoff meeting, we agreed to send a status report every Friday.

Common collocations

  • hold a kickoff meeting
  • internal kickoff meeting
  • client kickoff meeting
  • kickoff deck
  • project charterA short official document that authorises a project to start. It states the goals, high-level scope, main stakeholders, budget and the project manager's authority.
  • project planA document, or set of documents, that explains how a project will be carried out: its scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks and how it will be controlled.
  • stakeholderAny person or group that is affected by a project or can influence it, such as the client, users, managers, suppliers or the project team itself.
  • project lifecycleThe series of phases a project goes through from start to finish, commonly initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closure.

More terms: Project Lifecycle

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