Project Planning Template
Project Planning template, free to copy, edit and download. Plan your projects and define important tasks and actions. Includes an executive summary, project objectives, stakeholders, schedule.
1. Project objectives
1.1. KPI's
1.2. Business Objectives
1.2.1. Expected Outcomes
1.2.2. Goals
1.3. Refer to the Business Case to complete this section
2. Stakeholders
2.1. Project Sponsor
2.2. Project Manager
2.3. Developers
2.4. Primary User Group
2.5. Supporting Staff
2.6. Stakeholder Analysis
3. Notes
4. Project Information
4.1. Definition
4.1.1. Project Description
4.1.2. Executive summary
4.2. Items to be Delivered
4.3. Extent
4.3.1. Included
4.3.2. Included
4.3.3. Excluded
5. Schedule
5.1. Project Start
5.1.1. Project specifications
5.1.2. End User requirements
5.1.3. Action points sign-off
5.2. Development Stage 1
5.2.1. Define actions as necessary
5.3. Development Stage 2
5.4. Project Milestones
5.4.1. Kick off
5.4.2. Design completion
5.4.3. Development Stage 1
5.4.4. Development Stage 2
5.4.5. UAT completion
5.4.6. Go no/go
6. Assumptions
6.1. Schedule
6.2. Budget
6.2.1. What was assumed in estimating?
6.3. Dependencies
6.3.1. Did we assume all external projects ready?
6.3.2. What dependencies do we have?
6.4. Resources
6.4.1. What was assumed in resourcing?
6.4.2. Did we assume full availability?
7. Constraints
7.1. Budget
7.1.1. Materials
7.1.2. Personel
7.1.3. Services
7.1.4. Duration
7.2. Delivery Timeline
7.3. Requirements
7.4. Tolerances
7.4.1. Budget
7.4.1.1. +/- %
7.4.2. Scope
7.4.3. Schedule
7.4.3.1. +/- x days
7.4.4. Example project tolerance and exception procedure
8. Actions
8.1. Define Project Schedule
8.1.1. Dependencies
8.1.2. Milestones
8.2. Constraints
8.2.1. Schedule
8.2.2. Budget
8.2.3. Scope
8.3. Approval of Project Plan
8.4. Convert mindmap schedule to
8.4.1. 1. WBS
8.4.1.1. How to create a WBS
8.4.1.2. WBS examples
8.4.1.3. WBS templates
8.4.1.3.1. Excel WBS
8.4.1.3.2. Mind map WBS
8.4.2. 2. Precedence Diagram
8.4.3. 3. Gantt chart
9. Resources
9.1. PMI
9.2. Prince 2 templates
9.3. Project Management Templates
9.4. Scrum.org
9.5. MS Project templates
9.5.1. Conference project plan
9.5.2. Software project plan
9.6. Project Manager Job Descriptions
10. Executive Summary
10.1. What?
10.2. Why?
10.3. When?
10.4. How?
11. Quality
11.1. Project Approvals
11.2. Stage gates
11.3. Operating Procedures
11.4. Assessment & review standards
12. Risks
12.1. Risk log
12.1.1. Risk 1
12.1.1.1. Description
12.1.1.2. Impact
12.1.1.3. Urgency
12.1.1.4. Migitating actions
12.1.1.5. Contingent actions
12.1.2. Risk 2
12.1.2.1. Description
12.1.2.2. Impact
12.1.2.3. Urgency
12.1.2.4. Migitating actions
12.1.2.5. Contingent actions
12.1.3. Risk 3
12.1.3.1. Description
12.1.3.2. Impact
12.1.3.3. Urgency
12.1.3.4. Migitating actions
12.1.3.5. Contingent actions
12.2. Risk format
12.2.1. There is a risk that...
12.2.2. because of.....
12.2.3. This will cause....