Why? For ex., the traveler who plans the route before beginning a journey ultimately reaches the intended destination more quickly and more easily than the disorganized traveler, who often gets lost along the way.
6 steps approach >
Project plan - set of documents
1. Baselines: starting point for scope, schedule & cost
2. Define roles & responsibilities
3. Develop scope statement; most imp doc used to get common agreement among the stakeholders about the project definition. should include:
4: Develop the project baselines
5: Review
Note that, usually include a review and approval process for modifying the baselines. Different approval levels are usually needed for different types of changes.
6: Communicate; imp aspect
6 steps approach >
Project plan - set of documents
1. Baselines: starting point for scope, schedule & cost
2. Define roles & responsibilities
3. Develop scope statement; most imp doc used to get common agreement among the stakeholders about the project definition. should include:
- Business need and business problem
- Project objectives, stating what will occur within the project to solve the business problem
- Benefits of completing the project, as well as the project justification
- Project scope, stated as which deliverable will be included or excluded from the project
- Key milestones, the approach and other components as dictated by the size and nature of the project
4: Develop the project baselines
- Schedule
- Identify activities and tasks needed to produce each of the deliverable identified in the scope baseline. Task list can depends
- Estimate how many hours it will take to complete each task
- Consider resource constraints
- Determine which tasks are dependent on other tasks, and develop critical path
- Develop schedule, which puts all tasks and estimates in a calendar;when each task is scheduled to begin and end
- Identify resources for each task, if known
5: Review
Note that, usually include a review and approval process for modifying the baselines. Different approval levels are usually needed for different types of changes.
6: Communicate; imp aspect
- Who wants which reports, how often, in what format and using what media
- How issues will be escalated and when
- Where project information will be stored and who can access it
- What new risks have surfaced and what the risk response will include
- What metrics will be used to ensure a quality product is built
- What reserves have been used for which uncertainties
