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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.


















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