Perfect Phrases for Project Management: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Delivering Results on Time and Under Budget

CHAPTER 7

Perfect Phrases to Lead the Team’s Project Planning

High-level planning is carried out early in the project planning process to create the framework for the project’s management. Discussions with management and documentation early in the initiation phase of a project help to clarify the need, define the final product and customer requirements, pin down critical success factors, and define the boundaries and scope of work for the project’s leaders to move forward with planning. As high-level planning progresses, team specialists help describe the proposed approach that will be used to create the final deliverable, define interim deliverables leading to the final deliverable, list the tasks needed to create those deliverables, and estimate ...