Project Planning Activities for Lifestyle Projects

Defining the scope

• Validate what the customer expects from the project and project success and failure criteria that criteria the customer will use to evaluate results

• Clearly define the tasks, basic conditions, project objectives and final outcome(s)

• Define the project boundaries – what's included and not included in the project

• Identify all stakeholders – persons or groups of persons who are participating in the project, are interested in the project performance, or are constrained by the project

Organizing the work

• Make sure you have the right people on the team

• Make sure all stakeholders have some type of representation on the team

• Break the final deliverable down into manageable parts

• Assign each part to team member

Assessing risk

• Explore what might go wrong and identify countermeasures to prevent problems from occurring

Developing a project schedule

• Identify project phases, milestones and outcomes schedules and schedule all the works that must be accomplished to meet the project key dates and objectives

Resource planning

• Identify resources required - project personnel, equipment, materials and facilities

• Optimize scheduling with respect to all available and procurable resources

Developing the project budget

• Identify and quantify the prospective costs of project outcomes

• Develop a spending budget

Writing the project plan

• Gather the procedures that will be used to make changes in the plan

• Compile the information developed during the planning into a formal project plan and get it approved.