Integrated Project Plan
Document and communicate project activities interdependencies
Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.
Implement an integrated and approved project management plan to guide project execution. Document and explain multi project tasks and dependencies for the program. Maintain the project plan for the life of the project. Approve changes to the project plan in accordance with project and program governance.
Changes to the Project plan are approved based on the goverance procedure.
Practices
- Develop a project schedule that includes information which enables project management to manage, and control project progress. The project plan includes milestones, deliverables, work products, resources, work breakdown structures, labor estimates, key dependencies, and identification of a critical path. Clearly denote cross project dependencies of resources, deliverables, and milestones with other projects.
- Keep the project schedule and subproject plans current to reflect actual progress and approved change orders.
- Frequently communicate updates to project schedules and publish progress reports for all projects within the total program. Ensure processed change orders made visible within individual schedules and related project plans.
- Increased probability that project milestones, cost or scope are met
- Enhanced management awareness of potential project delay, and the ability to respond quickly
- Better mechanisms for sharing project plan and progress in a consistent manner
- Progress of project tracked, evidenced and communicated
- Increased probability of undetected errors in project planning and budgeting
- Increased probability of misalignment of projects to the organization’s objectives and to other related projects
- Undetected variations from the project plan
