Project Planning Guide

All teams, but especially project teams, should have a plan for how the work will be completed. This work plan is where you commit yourself to a series of steps or activities that will ensure that the team’s performance objectives get translated into ACTION. The work plan is where the rubber meets the road.

The work plan also spells out what each team member is supposed to do and when each step is supposed to get done. That’s important, because as Duke Ellington once said, “Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.”

A good work plan includes these elements:

Image  A clear statement of the goal.

  A set of specific objectives. ...

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