A PROJECT PLAN

An overview of the entire project.

The Project Plan provides a statement of how and when a project's objectives are to be achieved, by listing the major products, activities and resources required. It provides the planned project costs to be included in the Business Case, and identifies the management stages and other key control points. The Project Plan forms part of the Project Initiation Documentation (PID).

A STAGE PLAN

One for each management stage.

Stage Plans are expansions of the Project Plan. They contain enough information on activities, resource effort and target delivery dates for a Project Manager to maintain day-to-day control and monitoring of the project.

A TEAM PLAN

For creating product(s).

Team Plans are optional, but if required, are used to break down stage activities into a lower level of tasks required to produce the actual products listed in the Stage Plan.

An Exception Plan

To typically replace the remainder of a Stage Plan when it is predicted that the Stage cannot be completed within agreed tolerance.