Planning

Planning

1. Functional Planning

   • Definition
     • Manages the work of a department that is concerned with performing the same type of work for all projects as well as performing non-project work.
   • Characteristics
     • Department oriented
     • Manages activities
     • Focus on throughput and resources
     • Uses date management and database techniques
     • Includes change work
     • Focus on moving work through a department
   • Functional Plan
     • Describes the activity of a given functional area for a given project.
     • Activities in a functional plan are summarized to the program level.
     • It describes how a function will support the overall program
     • It serves as a framework for functional schedules.
     • It is created for internal department projects

2. Cross-Functional Planning

   • Definition
     • Focuses on moving work from functional organization to functional organization. It will also focus on managing the external outputs of a function - the key hand-offs between functions.
   • Characteristics
     • Project oriented
     • Manages deliverables
     • Focus on requirements and risk
     • Uses critical path scheduling
     • Focuses on planned activity
     • Focus on moving work between departments
   • Functional Schedules
     • Represents the work of a given functional area across many programs.
     • It is used to manage workload, enable functional metrics, and support functional and other plan types.
     • The summarized activities in the functional plan are broken down to discrete work elements, allowing for resource management.

3. Levels of Planning

   • • Program level: plan activities represent a summary.
     • Component level: activities are expanded out against the product scope.

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