Overview
Primarily this stage is to establish time-scales and resource requirements. These requirements enable the Project Board to evaluate the Business Case so the project can be controlled. While planning the project note down any Risks that crop up and any counter measures that spring to mind.
Within this analysis look for management 'stages' to break the project into. Your project must have a minimum of 2 stages; initiation (using the process you are looking at now) and the other, a 'doing' stage. The latter stage in medium to large projects is broken down into further management stages. In large projects where feasibility studies or large expenditure is expected SU Starting up a Project might be a separate stage to IP Initiating a Project.
Responsibility lies with the Project Manager.
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Tips
- This is a good time to allocate a change budget to cover any change requests
- Consider the presentation of the plan e.g. the medium (electronic or printed), content (graphs, images), delivery (meeting, email conversation by phone) etc
- Be sure to revise the process PL Planning - as this is integral to planning a project.
Notes
Produce the Project Plan by using the Project Approach, Project Brief and Project Quality Plan, in particular:
- Identify the project's product(s)
- Assess counter measures to all risks
- Estimate the:
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