SECTION 4:

MANAGING PROJECT PLANS

INTRODUCTION

Moreover the hastening of any matter breeds disasters, whence great losses are wont to be produced; but in waiting there are many good things contained, as to which, if they do not appear to be good at first, yet one will find them to be so in course of time.

Herodotus (484 BC–c.425 BC), The Histories (Volume II)

Project planning is the process of identifying what tasks need to be done to complete the project and to meet the project’s aims and objectives. Planning gives you, as the project manager, the opportunity to ratify with the stakeholders that you have really understood what they want, and that they understand what they are going to get.

Scheduling is the process of putting these tasks ...

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