Form Type

Project Plan

Purpose

A mandatory plan which provides a statement of how and when a project's objectives are to be achieved, by showing the major products, activities and resources required on the project.

It provides the Business Case with planned project costs, and identifies the management stages and other major control points.

It is used by the Project Board as a baseline against which to monitor project progress and cost stage by stage. It forms part of the Project Foundation Document and will contain the following.

Project Name

 

Project Manager

 

Date Raised

 

Raised by

 

Plan description

Giving a brief description of what the plan covers
 

 

 

 

Project pre-requisites

containing any fundamental aspects which must be in place at the start of the project, and which must remain in place for the project to succeed
 

 

 

 

External dependencies

 

 

 

 

 

Planning assumptions

 

 

 

 

 

Project Plan

covering:
Project level Gantt or bar chart with identified management stages

 

Project level Deliverables Descriptions

 

Project level activity network

 

Project financial budget

 

Project level table of resource requirements

 

Requested/assigned specific resources