What to consider when creating a plan
A plan obviously involves the breakdown of tasks, resource assignment, and scheduling, and any kind of plan will involve those. Planning aspects can be bucketed into four areas:
- Big picture understanding
- Work assignment and execution
- Monitoring
- Risk management
Let us now examine the considerations in each of the previous points.
The big picture
For a usual project to be delivered, a project manager can focus only at the deliverable at hand, but that will create all sorts of problems since a project does not exist in isolation. The big picture includes things that are beyond the immediate deliverable that may or may not impact the project deliverable.
Identifying the deliverable and greater purpose
The plan is obviously ...
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