Planning

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Overview

Project planning is at the heart of the project life cycle. The planning phase is when the project plans are documented, the project deliverables and requirements are defined, and the project schedule is created. It involves creating a set of plans to help guide the project team through the implementation and closure phases of the project. The plans created during this phase will help the team manage time, cost, quality, changes, risk, and related issues. They will also help control staff and external suppliers to ensure that the project is delivered on time, within budget, and within schedule.

 The primary purpose of the project planning phase is to:

• Establish business requirements
• Establish cost, schedule, list of deliverables, and delivery dates
• Establish resources plans
• Obtain management approval and proceed to the next phase
  
  

In order to fulfill the purposes outlined above, the project team should have the necessary capacity and competency to establish business requirements that drive the cost and schedule. They should also be able to establish resource plans to ensure sufficient resources are made available for the project. The activities above require competencies that need to be acquired. 

This course is designed to increase awareness of the concept of project management planning to targeted participants attending this course. They will learn how to plan better by focusing on developing better basis for business requirements and accurate cost, schedules as well as resource requirements. This will help them manage expectations of and balance conflicting needs of stakeholders.

The program includes the use of a customized case study based that will help generate group based discussion geared towards developing an innate understanding of the intricacies associated with the planning process. It is a very practical, hands-on training program that has been designed with emphasis on interaction, participation and adult based learning.

Skeletal Course Framework

• DayOne 

1. Pre Test for Project Management Planning
2. Introduction to Project Management Planning
3. Overview of project management areas and project management processes that relate to planning
4. Developing business and project requirements
5. Determining stakeholder requirements

• Day Two

1. Recap of previous day’s session
2. Project scope management requirements
3. Developing a project work schedule exercise
4. Planning for procurement
5. Planning for effective communications
6. Developing a quality management plan
7. Post Test

Expected Outcomes

From the proposed training program, it is expected that the participants will be able to improve their project management planning in terms of being able to:

1. Define the term project management planning
2. Categorize different types of project plans
3. Identify requirements of stakeholders for the project
4. Document project and product scope
5. Define scope baseline
6. Identify resource requirements
7. Develop a project work schedule
8. Develop a plan for effective procurement
9. Develop a quality management plan
10. Develop a communications management plan

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