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"A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long"  –– Golub's Law

 

 

Project Management: PROJECT PLANNING

Project Planning Activities

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.

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Project Management

5 Factors that Make a Project Successful

GREAT Model

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Planning Activities

The planning activities that you, with the help of your team members, will need to do for the project are listed below:

 
  • To recruit and build the team

  • To organize the project

  • To identify and confirm the start and end dates through a project schedule

  • To create the project budget

  • To identify clearly the customer requirements for the final outcome

  • To define the project scope boundaries - what it included and not included in the project

  • To write a description of the final outcome

  • To decide who will do what

  • To assign accountability

5 Factors that Make a Project a Success

By: Eric Verzuh, the author of The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management,

To be successful, a project must have:

 
  1. A plan that demonstrates what is possible, shows an overall path and clear responsibilities, contains the details for estimating the people, money, time, equipment, and materials necessary to get the job done, and will be used to measure progress during the project and act as an early warning system... More

GREAT Model

By: Michael S. Dobson

To make your project team function effectively, the first thing you need to know is the GREAT model: Goals; Results; Expectations / Performance; Accountabilities / Abilities; Timing.

The GREAT model specifies what people must know before they can work together effectively... More 

 

Project Management: FAST FORWARD MBA in PROJECT MANAGEMENT (Book by Eric Verzuh)          Project Management: PROJECT PLANNING and MANAGEMENT - Business Spreadsheets

 
 

 

 

 

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References:

  1. Getting Started in Project Planning, P.Martin and K.Tate

  2. Project Manager's MBA, Cohen E. Graham

  3. ICB – IPMA Competence Baseline, International Project Management Association (IPMA)

  4. The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management,  Erich Verzuh

 

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