GENERAL PROCESS

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Project Plan Development (PMBOK® Guide 4.2)

  What: Developing a detailed, bottom-up description of the project work.
  When: Project planning and execution.
  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. Whether for an entire project or for one or more delivery iterations, this requires planning. This process is an overall summary of many other processes throughout this book. The summary flowchart in Figure 61.1 indicates how some of the planning processes are linked. Because project planning is iterative, though, there are many other possibilities.

Prepare for planning by reviewing project ...

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