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How to plan for a megaproject

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Mengshi Xu PM II| Infosys Technologies(China), Co.Ltd Shenzhen,Guangdong, China, Mainland
There is a multiyear megaproject,in order to meet the KPI,how to workout project plan accurately since there are so much unknown risks during the long run.
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
As any other project you have been assigned. Key is not foget the basement about estimation. My recommendation is take a look to Barry Boehem`s Cone of Uncertainty that was originally created for software but it works on any type of project.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
You treat this project like any other project in terms of project management plan. However, it will require more planning and risk assessment but as Sergio said, the basement is the same.
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
In the wiki here you fine the basis for the cone of uncertainty
https://www.projectmanagement.com/wikis/36...-of-Uncertainty

Same for all project, more risk to account for!
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S Rajasekar Senior Project Manager| Allscripts Bangalore, Karnataka, India
If there are more unknowns use Rolling Wave planning
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Maria Isabel Martin Serrano SW Architect| Indra Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
As Rajasekar mentioned: Rolling Wave planning.
I would also recommend you to structure schedule, deliverables and milestones to ensure continuous delivery and integration. In this way, you will be able to test assumptions, assess risk and notice issues earlier maybe at the cost of additional planning effort and tracking at the beginning.
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Apr 04, 2017 10:40 PM
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I like your comment. Concepts of iteration and integration are ones of the most important concepts of which importance are hardly practically recognized .
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Aaron Porter
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IT Director| Blade HQ Payson, UT, United States
Can you break it up into sub-projects?

If possible, break it up into distinct deliverables, each with its own schedule that can be rolled up into a master schedule. As mentioned earlier, rolling wave planning will likely come into play because you may not be able to plan the schedule for all deliverables from the beginning. If you do use rolling wave planning, include a roadmap that identifies when you expect to be able to start planning the future waves. Rolling wave planning exposes a lot of uncertainty in a project that can work against you if you have stakeholders (like I often do) that want concrete dates as early as possible.
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Apr 04, 2017 10:37 PM
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Your comment is highly appreciated.
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Mega project, PPP project can be split in a series of projects that make the program. Each will have a different level of uncertainty. Precision will progressively be integrated in each project of the program.
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Oliver Bischof MD| run-e Dortmund, Nrw, Germany
Divide & Conquer
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Sungjoon Park Coral Springs, Fl, United States
Apr 03, 2017 11:55 AM
Replying to Aaron Porter
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Can you break it up into sub-projects?

If possible, break it up into distinct deliverables, each with its own schedule that can be rolled up into a master schedule. As mentioned earlier, rolling wave planning will likely come into play because you may not be able to plan the schedule for all deliverables from the beginning. If you do use rolling wave planning, include a roadmap that identifies when you expect to be able to start planning the future waves. Rolling wave planning exposes a lot of uncertainty in a project that can work against you if you have stakeholders (like I often do) that want concrete dates as early as possible.
Your comment is highly appreciated.
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