Representatives from partner organizations.The people who will be working on the actual project.
Here are the types of folks who might be good consultants for your project plans: If you can convene an advisory group for your project, you could easily adapt the Project Reality Check interview process for a group discussion.
You can talk with your Reality Checkers in one-to-one conversations that probably will take 15-20 minutes.
Prepare a question guide for querying your Reality Checkers. Make a list of potential Reality Checkers and divvy them up among project team members. Showing them your assumptions and external factors in advance may prevent them from generating their own. However, I don’t add the working group’s information to the logic model version for the Reality Checkers. After filling in the main columns, this working group drafts a list of assumptions and external factors for the boxes at the bottom. One person can do this step, if necessary. A small project team (2-5 people) works out the project plan and fills in the columns of the logic model. I always incorporate Project Reality Checks into any logic model development process I lead. How to Conduct a Logic Model Reality Check By the time you complete your Project Reality Check, you will have excellent information to add to those boxes. This template includes boxes for assumptions and external factors. What assumptions you are making? What external factors could help or hinder your project? The figure below is the logic model template from the NEO’s booklet Planning Outcomes-Based Outreach Projects. Then, with a few follow-up questions, you can guide your Reality Checkers in identifying key project blind spots. Present it with a brief pitch, and you can bring anyone up to speed on your plans in a New York minute (or two). I refer to these people as “Reality Checkers.” (I’m capping their title out of respect for their importance.) Your logic model is your one-page project vision. The Project Reality Check allows you to assess the feasibility of your project with stakeholders, experienced colleagues, and key informants. Our first topic: The Project Reality Check. (If you aren’t familiar with logic models, here’s a fun introduction.) Today’s post starts a new NEO Shop Talk series to take our readers beyond Logic Models 101. Logic models just may be the duct tape of the evaluation world.Ī logic model’s usefulness extends well beyond initial project planning. 
Posted by nnlmneo on February 24th, 2017 Posted in: Logic Models, Practical Evaluation A Logic Model Hack: The Project Reality Check
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