Project Plan Template for Desklib Online Library

Project Plan
Template

Table of Contents
1 PLANNING BASIS................................................................................................................2
1.1 SCOPE......................................................................................................................................................... 2
1.2 MILESTONES................................................................................................................................................ 2
1.3 PHASES....................................................................................................................................................... 2
1.4 ACTIVITIES................................................................................................................................................... 3
1.5 TASKS.......................................................................................................................................................... 4
1.6 EFFORT....................................................................................................................................................... 4
1.7 RESOURCES................................................................................................................................................. 5
2 PROJECT PLAN..................................................................................................................6
2.1 SCHEDULE................................................................................................................................................... 6
2.2 DEPENDENCIES............................................................................................................................................ 7
2.3 ASSUMPTIONS.............................................................................................................................................. 7
2.4 CONSTRAINTS.............................................................................................................................................. 7
3 REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................8
4 APPENDIX..........................................................................................................................9
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1 Planning Basis
1.1 Scope
The project plan will be developed in order to conduct the research to identify the positive
economic, cultural, and ethical impacts of globalisation on different business functions within
organisations. The project will include the research related to topic and analyse the data
collected related to the topic of the research. The activities of the project will be undertaken
within the estimated cost and time for the project (Rouse, project scope, 2018). The goals of
the project are to identify the effect of the globalization upon the organizations in context to
the areas that are economy, culture, and ethics. The information related to the research topic
will be delivered as a deliverable on the right time.
1.2 Milestones
The mile stones of the project are:
Milestone Description Delivery Date
Business Case
Approval
The Business Case has been
documented and was approved by the
Project Sponsor.
08/11/2018
project charter
approval
The project charter has been documented
and was approved by the project
sponsors
30/11/2018
project plan
approval
the project plan has been documented
and was approved by the high
management of the project
18/01/2019
selection of the
sources for the
secondary research
the selection of the appropriate sources of
the secondary research by the project
team and approved by the project
manager
19/02/2019
(Westland, 2018)
1.3 Phases
The main phases of the project are project initiation phase, project planning phase, project
execution phase and project closure phase.
Phase Description© Sequence
Project Initiation The initiation phase will include defining
the process for gathering the
requirements, requirement analysis,
creating requirement documents, project
charter development, project scope
definition, estimates of time, cots and
resources, list of key stakeholders and
project charter approval
Phase # 1
Project Planning Project Plan development, scope
statements, WBS, Performance baseline
measurements project schedule plan,
Resource management, supporting FM
Phase # 2
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process plans and Project plan approval
are included in the project planning
phase.
Project Execution Conducting secondary research and
selecting the sources for the secondary
research are included in the execution
phase of the project.
Phase # 3
Project Closure Contract closure, launching project lesson
learned reviews, establishing process for
archiving the project docs, archiving
documents and conducting administrative
closeout are included in the project
closure phase.
Phase # 4
(Brady, 2015; Bisk, 2018)
1.4 Activities
The major project activities are:
Phase Activity Description© Sequence
Project
initiation
Project
Charter
developmen
t
The project charter is produced in
order to state the objectives of the
project which includes the goals of
the project, responsibilities and
goals, identification of the main
stakeholders and the authority of the
project manager.
After defining the
process for gathering
requirements but
before the business
case approval.
Project
Planning
Work Break
down
structure
The work break down structure is
developed considering all the phases
of the project. It will help in
demonstrating the sequences of the
activities of the project in a simple
manner.
It should be
developed after
developing the scope
statement and before
resource
management.
Project
Execution
Collecting
the
secondary
data
The secondary data should be
collected from the different sources
in order to meet the objectives of the
research project.
It should be done
before the analysis of
the research data to
meet objectives and
after selecting the
secondary data
sources.
Project
Closure
Archive
documents
The archiving of the documents is
important in order keep the records
of the documents of the research
project
it should be done
before conducting
administrative
closeout and after
establishing the
process for archiving
the project docs
(Suttle, 2018)
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