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MAVM 620 Project Management Plan Template
Executive Summary (1 page)
Provide an overview of the management approach to the entire project. State who
makes up the project team and their roles, skills, and level of authority. Detail which
departments, divisions and suppliers will provide the project’s required resources. State
any high-level constraints, limitations or assumptions associated with the project
Project Scope (1-2 pages)
Product scope description: Identify the characteristics of the products, services, and/or
results your project will produce.
Acceptance criteria: Identify the conditions that must be met before project deliverables
are accepted.
Deliverables (goals): Identify the products, services, and/or results your project will
produce. Develop at least three but no more than five goals using the SMART method.
Each goal must be in the form of a statement of at least one to two sentences (no more
than two sentences) that comply with each element of the SMART method.
Project Exclusions: Explain what the project will not accomplish or produce.
Constraints: Identify any restrictions that limit what you can achieve, how and when you
can achieve it, and how much achieving it can cost.
Assumptions: Explain how you will address uncertain information as you conceive, plan,
and perform your project.
Timeframe Management Plan (1-2 pages)
Detail the completion dates for various project phases and final completion date. List
the project milestones in this section. Depending on your project selection, this will
require you to create and/or assume some data points, however, conduct research to
determine realistic data and constraints. Be creative, but keep things in the realm of the
possible and plausible. To produce a project plan with sufficient detail, ensure your
project has at least four milestones and 16 tasks.
Use the GanttProject software in Activity 4.3 to assist you in determining realistic start,
stop, completion dates based on identifying task duration times and predecessor
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(dependency) tasks for milestones and tasks under consideration. Your data should be
presented in a table format in this section. You can also include details on the approach
you will take to keep the project running on time.
Cost Management Plan (1-2 pages)
Define how the costs on a project will be managed throughout the project’s lifecycle to
include the format and standards by which the project costs are measured, reported,
and controlled.
- Identify who is responsible for managing costs
- Identify who has the authority to approve changes to the project or its budget
- How will cost performance be quantitatively measured and reported.
- Identify report formats, frequency and to whom they are presented
Quality Management Plan (1-2 pages)
Define the overall quality objectives for the project. Identify the key project deliverables
(e.g. products, services, etc.) that will be subject to quality review, what quality
standards the deliverables must meet and how they will be measured for compliance
with the standards (quality control). Identify the critical project processes (e.g. activities
undertaken to complete the project) that will be subject to quality review and describe
the quality assurance activities to be used to ensure the quality standards for project
processes are met. Include quality roles and responsibilities. Also include any quality
audits that will be conducted of external suppliers to the project.
Human Resources Management Plan (1-2 pages)
Define the core people and the skills and expertise needed for the project management
team. Discuss how the project will be staffed. Discuss the type of organizational
structure used (e.g. functional, matrixed, etc.). This section should also include how
team members will be obtained (in-house, contracted, agency, etc.) and managed (full-
time collocation or periodic conferencing, etc.) as well as the key resources needed for
the project team (office space, equipment, etc.).
Change Management Plan (1-2 pages)
Describe the change control process for your project. Identify who has approval
authority for changes to the project, who submits the changes, how they are tracked
and monitored. Consider effective ways to provide oversight and ensure adequate
feedback and review of changes are obtained.
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Communication Management Plan (1-2 pages)
Define the communication requirements for the project and how information will be
distributed to ensure project success. Identify and consider all stakeholders, what
information they expect to receive, and how information will be communicated (e.g.
meetings, memos, emails, news articles, etc.). Consider the following questions:
- What information will be communicated?
- How the information will be communicated?
- When will information be distributed?
- Who does the communication?
- Who receives the communication?
Risk Management Plan (1-2 pages)
Provide a description for the method taken to identify, assess and manage the risks
associated with the project. Describe the processes for risk identification, risk analysis,
risk response planning, and risk monitoring/controlling/reporting.
Supplier Management Plan (1-2 pages)
Identify the products, services and resources that need to be acquired or purchased
from outside of the project team. Identify key players and organizations that will be
involved in managing procurement activities (e.g. contracting or purchasing department,
etc.).
Format Guidelines
- The project management plan must be 12-18 pages in length (plus a title page, table
of contents and reference page). Use a narrative style with complete sentences (not
bullets).
- Use current APA style/format including 12 point, Times New Roman font, 1-inch
margins, double-spaced.
- Use a minimum of seven reference sources; your paper must contain at least one
accurately documented (APA style) parenthetical citation for each source listed on
your reference page.
- You can create tables to present data where this makes sense to do so; format tables
in APA style.
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- Write your paper in third-person narrative; think of this as a document that others can
refer to when working on the project.
- This paper is something of a hybrid between an academic paper and an actual project
management plan; write it as if it’s an actual plan, but include references to show your
research of principles involved.
- An abstract is not required.
- A running head is not required
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