PROCESS CHART – Traditional/Predictive
PLANNING
• Determine development approach, life cycle, and how you will plan for each
knowledge area
• Define and prioritize requirements
• Create project scope statement
• Assess what to purchase and create procurement documents
• Determine planning team
• Create WBS and WBS dictionary
• Create activity list
• Create network diagram
• Estimate resource requirements
• Estimate activity durations and costs
• Determine critical path
• Develop schedule
• Develop budget
• Determine quality standards, processes, and metrics
• Determine team charter and all roles and responsibilities
• Plan communications and stakeholder engagement
• Perform risk identification, qualitative and quantitative risk analysis and risk
response planning
• Go back - iterations
• Finalize procurement strategy and documents
• Create change and configuration management plans
• Finalize all management plans
• Develop realistic and sufficient project management plan and baselines
• Gain formal approval of the plan
• Hold kickoff meeting