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Objective:
A project plan is established and maintained as the basis for managing the project.
Description:
A project plan is a formal, approved document used to manage and control the execution of the project. It is based on project requirements and established estimates.
The project plan should consider all phases of the project lifecycle. Project planning should ensure that all plans affecting the project are consistent with the overall project plan.
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Task Instructions:
Establish the Budget and Schedule
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Identify Project Risk
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Plan Data Management
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levels of configuration control and establish mechanisms to ensure
project data are controlled.
Plan the Project’s Resources
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Plan Needed Knowledge and Skills
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Plan Stakeholder Involvement
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Plan Transition to Operations and Support
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Establish the Project Plan
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Manage Quality
Many people find quality management to be a challenging project management process to implement. This is because quality is hard to define, and proper quality management requires you to collect metrics to validate the state of quality. The following process will help create a framework for the quality management process.
- Create a Quality Management Plan
Describe the processes and activities used to ensure that quality deliverables are produced. Develop a Quality Management Plan to identify the major deliverables, completeness and correctness criteria, quality control activities, and quality assurance activities. The Quality Management Plan also describes how you will achieve the client’s quality requirements. - Determine the customer requirements for quality
Work with your customer to determine their requirements for quality. The high-level characteristics of quality can be uncovered during the project definition process. Detailed quality requirements should be documented when you gather business requirements. - Define a set of metrics to validate that quality requirements are met
Identify a set of metrics that will provide insight into the quality of the deliverables. The project manager should already be capturing overall financial and duration metrics. The quality-related metrics need to be more sophisticated. There are two areas where you are trying to manage quality – your project work processes and the actual deliverables you are building. You should try to capture metrics that will measure each. - Execute quality control activities
Quality control refers to activities that validate the quality of your deliverables. It is also referred to as “inspection.” Ensure that the quality control activities for every deliverable are performed while the project is underway. - Execute quality assurance activities
Quality assurance refers to the processes used to build deliverables. It is also referred to as “prevention.” Having good processes should result in good-quality deliverables. - Monitor and resolve deliverable quality
You need to validate the quality of your deliverables on an ongoing basis. When quality problems are found, implement a process to determine the cause and improve the process.
Using this process will help you understand, plan for and manage the state of quality of your project.