Project planning

Project planning within project management is the process to quantify the amount of time and budget a project will cost. The purpose of project planning is creating a project plan that a project manager can use to track the progress of his team.

Related Topics:
Project management - Project - Project plan - Project manager

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The September/October 2001 issue of IEEE Software lists the Nine Deadly Sins of Project Planning:

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• Not planning at all
• Failing to account for all project activities
• Failure to plan for risk
• Using the same plan for every project
• Applying prepackaged plans indiscriminately
• Allowing a plan to diverge from project reality
• Planning in too much detail too soon
• Planning to catch up later
• Not learning from past planning sins
 
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