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What should be Included in your Project Plan
Project Management Essentials

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Module 1 | Project Management Essentials | |
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Unit 1 | Project Management Essentials Pretest | |
Unit 2 | Introduction to Project Management | |
Unit 3 | Initiating and Planning a Project | |
Unit 4 | Creating your Project Plan | |
Unit 5 | What should be Included in your Project Plan | |
Unit 6 | Effectively Executing a Project | |
Unit 7 | Effective Project Management Communication | |
Unit 8 | Closing a Project | |
Unit 9 | What Makes a Successful Project Manager | |
Unit 10 | Common Project Manager Pitfalls | |
Unit 11 | The Project Manager’s Checklist | |
Unit 12 | Project Management Essentials Posttest |
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The project plan is the project’s road map that creates the common language that all stakeholders can reference to ensure that the project is on target with regards to time, output and costs.
The project plan typically covers:
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Scope Management: Project (Expected work) and Product (Features & Functions)
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Requirements Management: Documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders
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Schedule Management: Project's milestones, activities, and deliverables, and their expected start and end dates
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Financial Management: Investment and budgetary details
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Quality Management: Quality planning, quality control, quality assurance and quality improvement
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Resource Management: Financial resources, inventory, human resources & skills, production resources, and/or information technology
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Stakeholder management: Define and manage positive relationships with stakeholders through the appropriate management of their expectations and agreed objectives
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Communications Management: What information needs to flow in the project, Who needs what information, When is the information needed, What format is the information delivered in, and Who will be responsible for transmitting and providing the information
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Project Change Management: Change control of project parameters and their impact on the project
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Risk Management: Identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks
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Procurement Management: Establishing, maintaining and closing relationships with suppliers of goods and services for the project
In addition to the PID and Project Plan, project managers can create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), which is a key project deliverable that organizes the team's work into manageable sections.
The use of the above steps and charts depend greatly on the complexity and size of your project. One thing to keep in mind is that good planning leads to a higher success rate.
If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there? Basil S. Walsh