📘 Development Project Management Plan

The project management plan describes the development approach, life cycle, and how the project will be executed and controlled. It identifies when project management reviews are needed and contains the performance measurement baseline (scope, schedule, and cost baselines). It integrates plans for managing:

🔹 Core Areas Managed

📌 Management Plans

Management plans describe the strategy and approach for managing the project — including constraints and integration points like communications and stakeholder engagement.

Key questions to ask:

• How will I define, plan, manage, and control scope, schedule, cost, quality?
• How will closing phases be handled?
• What specific needs exist for each category?

Management plans contain:

• Processes
• Procedures
• Practices
• Standards

to ensure consistent, predictable results.

🛠️ Planning Components

Management plans are tailored per project and evolve in format and detail.

Example: Cost Management

In Agile/hybrid environments, separate management plans may not exist as discrete documents; instead, they’re embedded in product backlogs and release roadmaps. Plans include risk response, delivery timing, and work planning.

▶️ Executing Components

The doing part of the plan — how work will be performed.

For example, the cost management plan executing component answers:

• What cost data is needed?
• Who collects the data?
• Where is the raw data stored?

📊 Monitoring and Controlling Components

Defines how progress will be:

• Measured
• Compared against the plan
• Adjusted to address variances or changes

Imagine how this applies to: Scope, schedule, quality, resources, communications, risk, procurement, stakeholder engagement.

Additional plans include:

• Change management plan
• Configuration management plan
• Requirements management plan

🧩 Project Management Plan

The centralized artifact that integrates all individual management plans and baselines, including:

• Scope
• Schedule
• Cost

Agile and hybrid approaches may tailor these components adaptively.

📈 Performance Measurement Baseline

Deviations prompt assessment and possibly change requests. Baseline changes are documented carefully. Effective risk management reduces baseline deviations.

📋 Requirements Management Plan

Defines how requirements will be:

• Gathered
• Analyzed
• Prioritized
• Evaluated
• Documented
• Managed and controlled through the project

🔄 Change Management Plan

Prepares for controlling changes to avoid negative impact:

• How changes are managed and controlled
• Change control procedures and approval levels
• Creation of a Change Control Board
• Roles and responsibilities
• Tracking and reporting changes
• Emergency change process

🗂️ Configuration Management Plan

Details artifact management:

• Naming conventions
• Version control systems
• Document storage and retrieval

Ensures stakeholders have access to latest documents and versions.

🕰️ Own Category Chart

🎨 Visual Summary