Chapter 8. Completing the Planning Phase in Project

Completing the Planning Phase in Project

AS YOU MOVE toward finalizing your plan and get ready to begin the "implementation stage" of your project, it’s always wise to step back and review what you’ve got in your plan. As you work on this finalization of the project plan, you want to review the project’s scope to make sure that the scope hasn’t changed. You also want to review the project schedule from a variety of views, making sure you’ve addressed all possible concerns. You want to determine the critical path of the project plan so that you can keep a close eye on tasks on the critical path. Finally, you want to set a baseline for ...

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