Project Plan Template

You are to use this document as a template to prepare your project plan.

Use this template to complete your project plan. You should personalize it with a project logo or further objects, now or later.

Here is a pointer to a sample project plan. Some things were done differently in this project plan, so this is only given as a guide. The sections below clearly indicate what information is required in this document. If you choose to include further information (such as an assessment of risks) then that will count as extra credit in grading this document.

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[Project Name] Project Plan

Winter Quarter 1996
1/16/96

Document Author:

Name of author

Project Sponsors:

GregoryAbowd
Others?

[Project Name] Team:

Name (Manager)
Name (Architect)
Name (Programmer)
Name (Technical Writer)

Project Description

Write a one page description of the project you are working on. We are looking both for a general overview and a prelimary decomposition of what you see as the main project features decomposition.

View this as a preliminary attempt at a requirements document.

Project Schedule

Use the project schedule table template to indicate the activities you intend to perform. Do not hesitate to add as many more (sub)activities as you think you need. You are responsible to define them as you see fit. Indicate along the time dimension when you will be working on the various activities. You can and should be planning things so that the whole project team is working on more than one activity at a time. At all times, each project member should have some assigned activities. Indicate in the schedule when milestones (various deliverables described elsewhere) will be completed.

The following template is provided as a suggestion on how to format your own schedule. Feel free to modify this template to better suit your needs.

ACTIVITIES
Requirements xxxxx
Design
Prototype
Training
TIME -1/15- -1/22- -1/29- -2/5- -2/12- -2/19- -2/26- -3/4-

Activities description

For each activity listed in the schedule above, write a few sentence description of what is involved in that activity. Provide an estimate of the number of hours to be spent on this activity. Also indicate what roles in the project (manager, architect, programmer, writer) are responsible for carrying out this activity. Here is an example of what you should provide.

Training (25 hours)

Description:

We will be developing the prototype using the Java programming language. All members of the team will be engaged in this activity. The programmer and architect will spend the most time gathering tutorial materials and going through exercises to build up their experience. We will then have a group training session on Java for the benefit of the remaining project team members.

Roles:

Architect (10 hrs.), Programmer (10 hrs.), Manager (2.5 hrs.), Writer (2.5 hrs.)

Link to [Project Name] Project Notebook
Last Modified 1/17/96 -- Gregory Abowd