Plan Description
A brief description of what the plan covers.
Project Prerequisites
Any fundamental aspects that must be in place at the start of the project and any that must remain in place for the project to succeed.
External Dependencies
Identifying the product/actor context that must be provided to the project so that it can continue but which the Project Team has no authority over and so cannot ensure delivery fits the project requirements.
- Products/Actors External to Initiative
- Products/Actors within Initiative and External to this Project
Planning Assumptions
These concern availability of products, resources, skills/competency requirements etc
Plan: Gantt chart or bar chart
These include identified management stages, e.g. milestones and control points
Product Scope and Embedding
Product scope is expressed on the basis of the collective products involving blueprint-changes to actor processes and other simple products (services in particular).
Template: Product Breakdown Structure (Prince2TM)
Product Descriptions
Defining the collective and simple products that the project will deliver including the required quality level.
Template: Product Description (Prince2TM)
Activity network and product dependencies
Resource Requirement
- Table
- Requested/assigned specific resources
Change Budget
Tolerance
For both time and budget as triggers for contingency plans and escalation processes.
Contingency plans
How is it intended to deal with the consequences of any risks that materialise.
