Planning Part 1

Activity List

A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description, activity identifier, and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed.

Change Requests

A formal proposal to modify a document, deliverable, or baseline.

Subsidiary Plans include...

1. Communications Management Plan 2. Cost Management Plan 3. Procurement Management Plan 4. Quality Management Plan 5. Requirements Management Plan 6. Risk Management Plan 7. Schedule Management Plan 8.Scope Management Plan 9. Stakeholder Engagement Plan

Outputs of Cost Management Knowledge Area in Planning Process Group

1. Cost Management Plan 2. Cost Estimates 3. Basis of estimates 4. Cost Baseline-Time Phased budgets 5. Project Funding requirements 6.Project Document Updates

What does the Planning Process Group do?

1. Establishes the project Scope 2. Refines Project objectives 3. Defines Next steps to Deliver Project objectives

3 components of scope Baseline

1. Project Scope Statement 2.Work Breakdown structure 3. Work Breakdown structure Dictionary

Outputs Of Quality Management Knowledge area in Planning Process group

1. Quality Management Plan 2. Quality Metrics 3. Project Management Plan updates 4. Project Documents updates

Outputs of the Risk Management Knowledge Area in Planning Process

1. Risk Management Plan 2. Risk Register 3. Risk Report 4.Project Documents Updates 5. Change Requests 6. Project Management Plan Updates

Outputs of Schedule Management Knowledge area is Planning Process Group

1. Schedule Management Plan 2. Activity List 3. Activity Attributes 4. Milestone List 5. Project Schedule Network Diagrams 6. Duration Estimates 7. Basis of Estimates 8.Schedule Baseline 9. Project Schedule 10. Schedule Data 11. Project Calandars

Outputs of Scope Management Knowledge Area in Planning Process Group

1. Scope Management Plan 2. Requirements Management Plan 3. Requirements Documentation 4. Requirements Traceability Matrix 5. Project Scope Statement 6. Scope Baseline

Requirements Documentation

A description of how individual requirements meet the business need for the project.

Outputs of Project Integration Knowledge Area in Planning Group

Project Management Plan

Planning Process Group

Those processes required to establish the scope of the project, refine the objectives, and define the course of action required to attain the objectives that the project was undertaken to achieve.

Communications Management Plan

A component of the project, program, or portfolio management plan that describes how, when, and by whom information about the project will be administered and disseminated.

Project Calendar

A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.

stakeholder engagement plan

A component of the project management plan that identifies the strategies and actions required to promote productive involvement of stakeholders in project or program decision making and execution.

Procurement Management Plan

A component of the project or program management plan that describes how a project team will acquire goods and services from outside of the performing organization.

Quality Management Plan

A component of the project or program management plan that describes how applicable policies, procedures, and guidelines will be implemented to achieve the quality objectives.

Requirements Management Plan

A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed, documented, and managed.

Scope Management Plan

A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the scope will be defined, developed, monitored, controlled, and validated.

Schedule Management Plan

A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the criteria and the activities for developing, monitoring, and controlling the schedule.

Risk Management Plan

A component of the project, program, or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.

Milestone Schedule

A type of schedule that presents milestones with planned dates. See also master schedule.

Project Schedule Network Diagram

A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.

Requirements Traceability Matrix

A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

A hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables.

Milestone List

A list identifying all project milestones and normally indicates whether the milestone is mandatory or optional.

Quality Metrics

A metric that specifically describes a project or product attribute and how the Control Quality process will verify compliance to it. Some examples of quality metrics include percentage of tasks completed on time, cost performance measured by CPI, failure rate, number of defects identified per day, total downtime per month, errors found per line of code, customer satisfaction scores, and percentage of requirements covered by the test plan as a measure of test coverage.

Risk Report

A project document developed progressively throughout the Project Risk Management processes, which summarizes information on individual project risks and the level of overall project risk.

Risk Register

A repository in which outputs of risk management processes are recorded.

Milestone

A significant point or event in a project, program, or portfolio.

Project Schedule

An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates, durations, milestones, and resources.

Project Funding Requirements

Forecast project costs to be paid that are derived from the cost baseline for total or periodic requirements, including projected expenditures plus anticipated liabilities.

Activity Attributes

Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. Activity attributes include activity codes, predecessor activities, successor activities, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, imposed dates, constraints, and assumptions.

Basis of Estimates

Supporting documentation outlining the details used in establishing project estimates such as assumptions, constraints, level of detail, ranges, and confidence levels.

Basis of Cost Estimates

The amount and type of additional details supporting the cost estimate. The supporting documentation should provide a clear and complete understanding of how the cost estimate was derived. Examples are 1. Documentation of the basis of the estimate (i.e., how it was developed) 2. Documentation of all assumptions made 3. Documentation of any known constraints, Documentation of identified risks included when estimating costs 4. Indication of the range of possible estimates (e.g., US$10,000 (±10%) to indicate that the item is expected to cost between a range of values) 5. Indication of the confidence level of the final estimate.

Basis of Schedule Estimates

The amount and type of additional details supporting the duration estimate vary by application area. The supporting documentation should provide a clear and complete understanding of how the duration estimate was derived. Examples are 1. Documentation of the basis of the estimate (i.e., how it was developed) 2. Documentation of all assumptions made 3.Documentation of any known constraints 4. Indication of the range of possible estimates (e.g., ±10%) to indicate that the duration is estimated between a range of values) 5. Indication of the confidence level of the final estimate 6. Documentation of individual project risks influencing this estimate.

Schedule Baselines

The approved version of a schedule model that can be changed using formal change control procedures and is used as the basis for comparison to actual results.

Scope Baseline

The approved version of a scope statement, work breakdown structure (WBS), and its associated WBS dictionary, that can be changed using formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.

Cost Baseline

The approved version of the time-phased project budget, excluding any management reserves, which can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.

Schedule Data

The collection of information for describing and controlling the schedule.

Project Scope statement

The description of the project scope, major deliverables, assumptions, and constraints.

Project Management Plan

The document that describes how the project will be executed, monitored and controlled, and closed. This integrates and consolidates all of the subsidiary plans and baselines from the planning processes.

Duration

The total number of work periods required to complete an activity or work breakdown structure component, expressed in hours, days, or weeks. Contrast with effort.

Project Scope

The work performed to deliver a product, service, or result with the specified features and functions.

Cost estimates

a quantitative assessment of the likely costs for resources required to complete the activity. It is a prediction that is based on the information known at a given point in time. Cost estimates include the identification and consideration of costing alternatives to initiate and complete the project.

Duration estimates

the quantitative assessments of the likely number of work periods that will be required to complete an activity. This will be used to calculate the schedule.