5. Project Planning Activities
• 0. Select Project
– Business Strategy / IS Strategy
• 1. Identify Project Scope and Obj.
– Identify Objectives
– Identify Stakeholders
– Identify sponsor
– Establish method of communication
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• 2. Identify Infrastructure
– H/w, S/w, Tools, Network, Storage
– Standards and Procedures
– Project team organization
• 3. Analyze project characteristics
– Interaction with other projects
– High level project risks and mitigation
– Select development life-cycle approach
– Resource estimates / Security
– Testing / Implementation / Res. Time
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7. Identify All Activities
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Estimate Efforts for
5
each Activity
6 Identify Activity Risks /
Priority / Dependency
7 Allocate Resources
8. Project Planning Activities
• 4 Identify procedures and activities
– Quality criteria
– Coding standards
– Generic components
– Major milestones and deliverables
• 5 Estimate Efforts for each activity
– Finalize of estimation methodology
– Carry out bottom-up estimates
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• 6 Identify Activity Risks
– Identify Occurrence and Quantify (H/M/L)
– Plan risk reduction and contingency planning
– Adjust execution plan and estimates accordingly
• 7 Allocate Resources
– Team formation (very critical)
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10. Plan approval by
8 stakeholders and
baseline
Start Executing the plan
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Start focusing on lower
10 level planning /
Closure Activities
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11. Project Planning Activities
• Review and publicize plan
– Frequency of update to stakeholders
• Execute Plan / Lower level of planning
– Revisit your plan process
– Document success & failures
– Build Knowledgebase
• Closure Activities
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