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Overview
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Summary of the key elements of the project, including its objectives and how to reach them.
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Objectives and key requirements
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Clear description of the aims of the project explaining what it requires to
achieve a good return on its investment, and the corresponding list of key requirements.
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Approach
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Description of how the project will be tackled, including the steps
to take and the standards to be met.
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Major deliverables and key steps
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Summary descriptions of the deliverables and project delivery schedule.
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Scope
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Clear description of the limits imposed on the project, defining the key elements
that are inside and the ones that are outside those limits.
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Resource requirements
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Summary of resources required to complete the project, broken down by type.
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Organization, roles and responsabilities
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List of the main roles to be filled, extent of their responsibilities and
how human resources will be exploited.
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Internal and external constraints
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List of the main constraints of the project.
Some are under our control while others involve third parties.
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Assumptions
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List of assumptions used in developing the plan.
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Implementation strategy
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Description of how the deliverables will be implemented.
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Timetable
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Overview, in the shape of a diagram, of the major project phases, of the activities,
of the tasks and of the resources allocated to those tasks.
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Risks and issues
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Initial record of the main risks and issues of the project,
together with procedures for managing those riks and issues.
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Quality assurance and control strategy
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Description of the processes that will be used to ensure that project
deliverables meet the objectives.
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Configuration of deliverables
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Procedures that will be used to manage different versions of the deliverables.
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