Project Management Step by Step: How to Plan and Manage a Highly Successful Project

Introduction to the Project Plan and estimating

The next few pages of this chapter provide an introduction to project planning and estimating, by presenting all the information you need to understand before you create your Project Plan. The subsequent section then applies this knowledge and presents the actual steps to develop a plan through a detailed worked example.

How you will do your project and achieve the objective you are setting out to achieve is defined in a document called the Project Plan. At one level, a Project Plan is just the list of tasks you need to do to complete your project. Essentially, this plan shows the order of the tasks, the length of time each task will take, and who is responsible for doing each one. The plan is used ...