Project Management Plans

• Project objectives and goals specifies what the project is intended to achieve—This should be a re-statement of the objectives and goals described in the business case; 

• Resource plan specifies roles and responsibilities for all information management jobs and how project team management is organized including:

• The expected level of effort required for each resource together with the cost and work schedule; and  
• Other project resources, such as team rooms, specialized software, licenses, and software project management tools, etc,

• Project management approach specifies the tasks and deliverables, project management methodologies and approach that will be utilized and how project documentation will be managed. The approach also describes any planned iterative development or prototyping methodology that might be adopted by the project team;

• A project management communication plan specifies how communication will be managed and who is responsible for communications;

• Risk management plan defines the process that will be followed to identify and resolve project risks;

• Configuration management plan identifies deliverables that will be included in formal configuration management, what configuration management tools will be used and what project management templates are required;

• Project quality management plan specifies plans to ensure deliverables comply with standards and best practices, including any review/checkpoints;

• Test plan specifies how quality assurance testing will be managed, who will be responsible for creating test cases, what software test tools will be required, and how project acceptance will be determined;

• Training plan specifies the objectives, needs, strategy, and curriculum that should be addressed to ensure that all stakeholders receive needed instructions on how to use and maintain the planned system;

• Requirements management plan and project management scope specifies how requirements will be reviewed and approved, what requirements management tools will be used and how the requirement traceability matrix will be maintained; 

• Documentation management plan should specify the project management document review process and baseline procedures together with any other project documentation standards;

• Project management templates should provide a complete set of templates with hints and suggestions form completion; and

• Project scope management specifies the approach for ensuring that the project does not deviate from the project objectives and how “scope creep” will be addressed.