Project Plan

Project Plan

A detailed, up-to-date project plan is vital to the success of the project. The project manager should use the project plan to monitor costs, manage project staff, follow progress against milestones and track key dependencies such as hardware, storage, training, licenses and certificates so that they can be addressed before they can become bottlenecks. The project plan should be regularly distributed between project team members to ensure that everybody is aware of progress as well as remaining tasks.

At the start of the project, only plan for the Assess phase. You won’t be able to plan for the Design or Deploy phases yet because you’ll need a better understanding of the FlexCast models, capabilities,

user groups and applications required. After the roadmap stage, update the project plan to include separate design and deploy activities for each user group identified, ordered by priority. This will

help to ensure that the business receives maximum value from their investment as soon as possible and allow infrastructure to be built out in manageable IT projects that minimize risk and maximize the chance for project success. 

A sample project plan, created in Microsoft Project 2010 format, accompanies this document. A high-level overview is shown below:

Note: Some of the tasks in the project plan template have been scheduled to occur in parallel because it is assumed that multiple project team members are available. All activities, resources and scheduling within the sample project plan should be reviewed prior to starting your project.