Preliminary planning

• Involve all stakeholders
• Costing and budgeting
• Infrastructure requirements

Project brief

• Aims and objectives
• Expected outputs/outcomes
• Project team/steering group membership
• Milestones

Issues concerning team building

• Appointing project staff
• Management support

Project plan

• Key activities identified
• Clear and achievable tasks
• Break up larger activities into smaller tasks
• Scheduling and sequencing: co-dependencies, critical path
• Deliverables, schedules, cost, resources available
• Representation of the plan: Checklist, Gantt chart
• Monitoring progress, shifting tasks, adapting the plan
• Risk assessment – risks: probability x impact >>controls/contingencies

Project plan review

• Allocation of people and time to task – role statements
• Monitoring use of time – realistic allocations
• Logging, monitoring and reporting expenditure against budget
• Reviewing, revising plans