Focus on Purpose
A plan is a strategic document: a distillation of the many elements that set the project’s identity. From it, it must be possible to determine the:
- Purpose of the project: the problem or opportunity it is addressing
- Value of the project: why is it worth doing–and to whom?
- Objective: what ‘good looks like’–how you know the project has completed successfully
- Scope: what the project is expected to deliver in terms of physical things
- Critical success factors: what has to be in place for success
- Risks: what the main threats are to the success of the project
A good plan integrates these into a single coherent representation. Even the most complicated project can be planned in a document of no more ...
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