Developing Project Management Plan

Contents of the project’s management plan

  • Describes how the project will be executed, monitored, controlled and closed
  • It integrates and consolidates all subsidiary management plans and baselines like;
    • Scope management plan
    • Requirements management plan
    • Schedule management plan
    • Cost management plan
    • Quality management plan
    • Resource management plan
    • Communications management plan
    • Risk management plan
    • Procurement management plan
    • Stakeholder engagement plan
    • Baselines
      • Scope baseline
      • Schedule baseline
      • Cost baseline
    • Change management plan
    • Configuration management plan
    • Performance measurement baseline – Schedule loaded with scope and cost, against which project performance can be monitored.
    • Project life cycle – Series of phases the project passes through
    • Development approach – Hybrid, predictive, Agile
    • Management reviews

Reference – PMBOK V6 Pages 86,87,88