Summary of Project Plans & Documents
Project Charter
A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Benefits Management Plan
The documented explanation defining the processes for creating, maximizing, and sustaining the benefits provided by a project or program.
Cost Management Plan
A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned, structured, and controlled.
Change Management Plan
A component of the project management plan that describes how costs will be planned, structured, and controlled.
Configuration Management Plan
A component of the project management plan that describes how to identify and account for project artifacts under configuration control, and how to record and report changes to them.
Resource Management Plan
A component of the project management plan that describes how, when, and by whom information about the project will be administered and disseminated.
Schedule Management Plan
A component of the project management plan that establishes the criteria and the activities for developing, monitoring, and controlling the schedule.
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 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 verified.
Risk Management Plan
A component of the project, program, or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
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.
Stakeholder Register
A project document including the identification, assessment, and classification of project stakeholders.
Risk Register
A repository in which outputs of risk management processes are recorded.
Business Case (reasons to do a project)
Market demand, business need or strategic opportunity, customer request, technological advance, legal requirement, ecological impact, social need
Project Management Plan
The document that describes how the project will be executed, monitored, and controlled, and closed.
Scope Baseline
The approved version of a scope statement, work breakdown structure (WBS), and its associated WBS dictionary, that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.