Project Management Simplified

Chapter 13

Connect the Dots

Integrating the Project Components

At this point, the project manager has a project plan with sections for charter, scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, stakeholders, communication, and teaming.

These are all interdependent, and consistency across all this work is important. Since each piece of the plan builds on prior sections, the project plan is likely consistent if the project manager looks backwards to prior pieces of the project plan as he continues development. For example, the tasks of the schedule section build on the work packages of the WBS in the scope section. As the project manager completes the schedule, he looks back to the WBS to see if changes might be necessary. Budget information builds on the ...