Project Plan

A Project Plan is a plan for a project.

• See: Project Management Body of Knowledge, Resource (Project Management), Project Planning, Project Manager.

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References

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/project_plan Retrieved:2015-1-23.
  • A project plan, according to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is:

    "...a formal, approved document used to guide both project execution and project control. The primary uses of the project plan are to document planning assumptions and decisions, facilitate communication among stakeholders, and document approved scope, cost, and schedule baselines. A project plan may be summarized or detailed.".

    The latest edition of the PMBOK (v5) use rather the term Project Charter to refer to the contract or document that the project sponsor and project manager use to agree on the initial vision of the project (scope, baseline, resources, objectives...) at a high level. The project management plan is the document that the project manager builds to describe in more details the planning of the project and its organization. In the PMI methodology described in the PMBOK v5, the project charter and the project management plan are the two most important documents for describing a project during the initiation and planning phases Description of PMBOK v5 project documents.

     PRINCE2 defines:

     :"...a statement of how and when a project's objectives are to be achieved, by showing the major products, milestones, activities and resources required on the project."

    The project manager creates the project management plan following input from the project team and key stakeholders. The plan should be agreed and approved by at least the project team and its key stakeholders.

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