An Integrated Project Management Playbook for Large, Geographically Dispersed Team Collaboration

Description

This Integrated Project Management Playbook provides your project teams guidance in how to create a formal, approved document to guide both project execution and project control. 

Assignments

Introduction 

• The Introduction provides a high level overview of the project and what is included in this Project Management Plan.    

Change Management Plan 

• This section describes your change control process.  

Communications Management Plan 

• The purpose of the Communications Management Plan is to define the communication requirements for the project and how information will be distributed to ensure project success.  

Cost Management Plan 

• This section contains the cost baseline for the project upon which cost management will be based.  

Milestone List 

• Provides a summary list of milestones including dates for each milestone.  

Other Direct Cost Plan 

• The Other Direct Cost Plan should be defined enough to clearly identify the necessary steps and responsibilities for procurement from the beginning to the end of a project.  

Project Management Approach 

• This section is where you outline the overall management approach for the project. 

Project Management Plan Cover Page 

• Introduces your Project.

Project Scope 

• State the scope of the project in this section.  

Quality Management Plan 

• This section discusses how quality management will be used to ensure that the deliverables for the project meet a formally established standard of acceptance.  

Sponsor Acceptance 

• Signature and approval by the project sponsor.

Staff Management Plan 

• Discuss how you plan to staff the project. 

Work Breakdown Structure 

• This section discusses the WBS, WBS Dictionary, and Schedule baseline and how they will be used in managing the project’s scope.  

Documents

Change Management Plan 

• Describes your change control process.

Communications Management Plan 

• Defines the communication requirements for the project and how information will be distributed to ensure project success.  

Cost Management Plan 

• Defines how the costs on a project will be managed throughout the project’s life cycle.

Integrated Project Management Plan 

• All the components of a project management plan are integrated.

Other Direct Cost Plan 

• Ensures that the plan facilitates the successful completion of the project and does not become an overwhelming task in itself to manage

Project Scope 

• Defines your approach to managing the projects’ scope. 

Quality Management Plan 

• Process by which the organization not only completes the work, but completes the work to an acceptable standard.  

Staff Management Plan 

• How resources will be procured and managed as well as the key resources needed for the project.  

Work Breakdown Structure 

• Approach taken to create the project schedule, schedule management for ensuring tasks are completed on time, resources are allocated appropriately, and to help measure project performance.  

What's New

The primary uses of the project plan are to document planning assumptions and decisions, facilitate communication among stakeholders, and document approved scope, cost, and schedule baselines.

Zephyr Technology Group (ZTG) is a Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) that applies technology in a dynamic, customer-focused, results-oriented way to better collaborate, communicate and make smarter decisions. Convergence of information and communications technologies enables our clients to take advantage of digital platforms that impact program and mission outcomes to achieve strategic and organizational goals.

About TurboWriter

TurboWriter enables subject matter experts to create playbooks in order to share their knowledge of how to accomplish a particular kind of writing project, and enables project owners to execute their projects, leveraging each playbook's embedded subject matter expertise and TurboWriter's authoring workbench features.

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• Automatic workflow management to coordinate collaboration among the managers, writers, and reviewers on your project team
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• An intuitive, easy-to-use interface
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