Project Plan/Project Definition

Topics: Integration Management, PMO

Format: Plan

This template walks you through building a very detailed and comprehensive description of your project. The finished product can be useful for:

Setting stakeholder expectations,
Developing a common understanding of project details with your team, particularly during project startup
Creating a very solid basis for building a project schedule.
Understanding the risks of the project to the organization and how it related to other initiatives already underway,
Controlling it during its duration and ending the project.

The Plan is a contract between the Project Manager, Executive Sponsor, Project Team and other management of the enterprise associated with and/or affected by the project. Each Project Plan component is essentially a work product resulting from subtasks in the Make Plan Project Management task, but can be revised during other project management activities. It is important to document all parameters that will have an impact on the project, its planning and execution. The finished product can be 30 pages long describes the following about the project:

Purpose/background/approach
Goals/objectives
Scope
Deliverables
Constraints/assumptions
Related projects/critical dependencies
Schedule and milestones
Budget/cost-benefit assessment
Risk assessment
WBS
Quality management approach
Tools and techniques to be used
Resource estimates
Standards
Change and control procedures
Roles/responsibilities
Work plan
Team contact directory
Approval sign-off form

Related Processes

JPACE Project Management

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