Form Type

Stage Plan

Purpose

Used as the basis for project management control throughout the stage. It identifies all the products which the stage must produce, provides a statement of how and when a stage's objectives are to be achieved, by showing the deliverables, activities and resources required, identifies the stage's control and reporting points and frequencies, provides a baseline against which stage progress will be measured, records the stage tolerances and specifies the quality controls for the stage and identifies the resources needed for them. The plan will contain:

Project Name

 

Project Manager

 

Form Number

 

Date Raised

 

Raised by

 

Plan Description,

covering           

A brief description of what the plan covers

 

 

A brief description of the planned approach

 

 

Quality Plan

covering           

The quality control methods to be used for each major product

 

 

The resources to be used in each quality test or check

 

 

Plan Pre-requisites

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

 

 

 

 

External Dependencies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tolerances

(time and budget)

 

 

 

 

How will the plan be monitored and controlled?

 

 

 

 

 

Planning Assumptions

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graphical Plan

covering

Identified resources

 

 

Activities

 

 

Start and end dates (usually a Gantt or Bar Chart)

 

 

Activity network

 

 

Financial budget

 

 

Table of resource requirements

 

 

 

Risk assessment.

 

 

 

Descriptions for the major deliverables.