Planning Projects

Written: September 10, 2020 at 5:45 PM
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The planning phase is arguably the most important phase of a project's lifecycle. If you get this wrong, you really mess up your ability to deliver on time and on budget.

In this phase, you're creating roadmaps, defining budgets, allocating resources, etc. Essentially, you must try to create the entire project in the abstract (Moses 3) before you get started. Specifically, you should be focusing on these areas:

  • What are you going to do?
  • How are you going to do it?
  • When will you do it?
  • How to know when you're done. (Project Managers aren't BAU)

All of this is compiled into a Project Plan and/or a Statement of Work that fully outlines the activites, approach, timeline, budget, etc.

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