How does one typically go about planning a project ?
Project planning is one of the first major activities a project manager needs to undertake once a project is approved. This activity plays a crucial role through out the project and it makes sense for project managers to arrive at realistic plan for a project to begin with. Hence this activity demands great attention from the project manager. Project planning involves drawing the activity (task) plan, resource plan, and schedule within the constraints of a given budget. During this phase, a project manager views the project in terms of a Gantt chart, PERT or network diagram and ensures that the plan has a very good chance of achieving the scope within the given schedule with the resources allocated. Also the manager breaks down the work (work break down structure) into smaller tasks to achieve better control. What does Work breakdown structure really mean? Every project has well defined objectives in terms of schedule, scope and resources. It could be something like “Building the bigge
