GENERAL PROCESS63Project Plan Development (PMBOK® 4.2, Develop Project Management Plan)
What: |
Developing a detailed, bottom-up description of the project work. |
When: |
Project planning, execution, and control. |
Results: |
A basis for effective communication and a map for project success. |
Prepare for Planning
Like a chess player, a good project manager looks several moves ahead. This process is an overall summary of many other processes throughout this book. The summary flowchart in Figure 63.1 indicates how some of the planning processes are linked, but project planning is iterative, so there are many other possibilities.
Prepare for planning by reviewing project initiation information, the project objective, and other available documentation ...
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