Developing a Project Management Plan

The areas that a project management plan helps guide are communication, Decision, and Leadership.

Communication

1. Risks
2. Assumptions
3. Decisions

Decision

1. Schedule
2. Cost
3. Quality
4. Scope

Leadership

1. Executing
2. Directing
3. Controlling

To create a project management plan

Inputs:

1. Preliminary Scope Statement
2. Project Management Process
3. Organizational Process Assets
4. Enterprise Environmental Factors

Tools and Techniques

1. Project Management Methodologies
2. Project Management Information System
3. Expert Judgment

Output

1. Work Execution
2. Project Process
3. Implementation Level of Process
4. Tools and Techniques
5. Life Cycle
6. Project Management Tools and Techniques
7. Change Monitoring and Control Plan
8. Configuration Management plan
9. Communication Plan
10. Management Reviews
11. Baseline
12. Management Plan
• Scope
• Schedule
• Cost
• Communication
• Process Improvement metric
• Staffing
• Quality
• Risk
• Procurement