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Project Planning Process - Creating Your Project Plan
September 18, 2008 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Project Management for Beginners, Project Plan Development
Project Planning Process - Creating Your Project Plan (#10 in the Hut A Quick Guide to Project Management)
By Manjeet Singh
The project plan document contains all the information that you have collected until now (in this hut). Your project plan can contain the following sections:
- Project Management approval page
- Executive summary
- Project charter
- Objectives
- Project assumptions and risks
- Project scope
- Deliverables
- Stakeholders
- Project organization
- Work breakdown structure
- Network diagram
- Gantt chart
- Resources
- Costs
- Procedures
- Project directory
Note that some of the information in your project plan was already in the SOW and project charter and by now you have surely updated it given that you have progressed in your project, and gained valuable knowledge that you did not have during the initiating process. Also, depending on the size/complexity of your project you can choose to include or not some of the above sections.
Get the main stakeholders to review your project plan. Be sure to put into place a document versioning system for your plan as it will be surely updated throughout the project.
TIP: Before you start the project executing process, use the Project Management approval page to get sign-off from the main stakeholders.
Next in the Hut A Quick Guide to Project Management:
Project Executing Process - Kick-off Meeting
Previously in the Hut A Quick Guide to Project Management:
Estimating Resource Requirements - Non-Person Resources
Manjeet Singh has over 17 years of experience acquired in a wide variety of industries with a focus on project and program management at Software Makers and Global IT Services companies throughout the world. Manjeet has an Executive MBA from the HEC Management School, and is the author of the website www.projectminds.com that provides a free guide to project management, and offers other project management-related resources.
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