Everything about project management plan.
- what is project management plan.
The project management plan integrates all knowledge area
management plans into a cohesive whole. Scope management plan deals with the
proper management of scope in the project, cost management plan deal with the
expenses, human resource management plan deals with the management of project
team members, etc. but all these plans focus on the success of that regarding
domain only. The cohesive success of all management plans can be ensured with
the integration function of the project management plan.
The project management plan includes a series of plans(
because of iteration) and baselines. Because the actual work will not go with
planning, no matter how perfect your plan is, based on variations, changes or,
actual work we are planning and respectively we iteration of the plans might be
needed, and these can cause take a new baseline of the project.
- what does project plan include?
Project management plan includes:
- project management processes that will be used on the project.
There will be several processes like determining the budget
process, acquire team process, plan procurement process, etc. these processes
belong to the knowledge areas, and processes groups that need to be used
throughout the whole project are included in the project management plan.
- Management plan for knowledge areas.
There are 10 knowledge areas in project management, and it
should be a particular management plan for each knowledge area respectively.
- Scope, schedule, and cost baselines.
Baselines show the snapshot of the project at a certain time
throughout the project. for example, scope baseline shows what the scope of the
project was, schedule baseline shows start and end dates of activities and
project duration, cost baselines show the expenses plans of the project, etc.
since there might be change requests or variations from the planned value in
the project, new baseline might be taken, and each baseline should be stored in
the project management plan respectively.
- Requirements management plan.
Requirement management plan include how the tractability of
the customer requirements from the customer till accomplishment will be
ensured. It describes how you get requirements, how you track them throughout
the project, and how you deliver and get acceptance from the customer.
- Change management plan.
Change are inevitable in the project. Customer might come
with a new requirement, or their requirement might change as long as they see
the outputs of the project. Therefore, change request might be initiated. How
it will see the change request, how it evaluate the impact, how it approved,
who will be change control board, how implement and approved change request,
etc. all these describe in change management plan.
- Configuration management plan.
Configuration management plan mainly deals with the
versioning of project work. There will be several revisions, components, or
documents in the project. let us consider that you will have the 2nd revision of
the project management plan, and this includes the 4th revision of the cost
management plan, the 6th revision of the schedule management plan, 4th revision
of the procurement management plan. These kinds of versioning project
documents and other components are handled with a help of a configuration
management plan.
- Process improvement plan.
If there are repeated set of activities, these should be
done better in each next attempt during a project. either the time to complete
the same activity shorting or a weak aspect must be improved, etc. how the
improvement on the repeated activities and processes are described in the
process improvement plan.