Unilever

 Project  Management  Course  

Project planning

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Learning outcomes
•  Understand the purpose of a project plan
•  Describe the use of the plan during the life cycle
•  Discuss the content of a typical plan
•  Understand the roles involved in preparing and
updating the plan

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Project boundaries
Project boundaries

Planning
Project End
deliverables users
Initiating
Project
Inputs
initiator

Closing
Project Process
records assets
Executing

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Starting the project

Environment

Processes Project brief

Initiate

Statement of work Business case

Contract

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Planning the project

Project brief
Project
Outline scope Planning Management
plan
Business case

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What is a plan?
•  Combination of all the plans in a project
•  Documents the outcome of the planning process
•  Reference from the project team
•  Owned by the project manager
•  Approved by the project initiator

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Key questions
“I KEEP six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who….”
Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child

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Content – based on BS6079

•  Introduction •  Communications
•  Project approvals management
required and •  Configuration
authorization limit management
•  Project organisation •  Risk management
•  Acceptance procedure •  Resource
•  Procurement strategy management
•  Health and safety
management

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Plan development

Effort

Initial Intermediate Final

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How the plan is used

Baseline Finalised Archived

Initial Intermediate Final

Reviewed and Lessons

updated learned

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Learning outcomes
•  Understand the purpose of a project plan
•  Describe the use of the plan during the life cycle
•  Discuss the content of a typical plan
•  Understand the roles involved in preparing and
updating the plan

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