Project Management Plan

Start with the shape of a plan

Begin with Project Plan for an overview of planning terms, including scope, deliverables, budgets, deadlines and dependencies. Use its branches to make a list of the ideas you recognize and those you want to study further. You can then move to the mind map on project management plan details, which describes the plan as a set of plans and baselines rather than just a schedule.

Follow the planning process

The map on developing a project management plan brings together the project charter, organizational process assets, outputs of planning processes and enterprise environmental factors. Another map adds the role of the team and subsidiary plans in keeping a project on track. Compare their branches to see how each resource presents the work of developing a plan.

A further map considers how a project manager determines which processes to use and how baselines are used for comparison. The map on planning and directing work also touches on budgets, resources, monitoring and changes.

Use maps for self-testing

No quizzes are listed on this page. You can still check your understanding by covering a map's branches and trying to recall the points beneath each heading. If you make a quiz from those branches, use it to check what you can recall, then return to the map to review any gaps.

Connect the resources

The note on who should write the plan considers individual work, including its advantages and disadvantages. Read it alongside the maps to bring the people involved into your study of planning. Within the wider planning unit, the resources connect the project management plan with the charter, planning processes and baselines. Choose a resource and follow the connections that are most useful to you.