Project Management: The Planning Process

Outline

Introduction

The aim of this paper is to highlight the planning process of project management, giving more information about what is done to ensure that the readers are aware of them. This section includes the significance of the research, lays out the background of the issues and talks about the expected emerging issues, provide enough information to keep your readers interested and engaged and to provide the definitions of the technical terms that will be used in the research.

Identify & Meet with Stakeholders

The stakeholders are the people who are affected either directly or indirectly by the project. This section explains what the meeting with the stakeholders will entail and what they stand to gain in the organization.

Set & Prioritize Goals

Goals are important in project management. This paper will give more information on the setting as well as prioritizing the goals.

Define Deliverables

A goal that the stakeholders set in the organization has a set of deliverables that the stakeholders stand to gain as they take part in the project. This section will name all the deliverable and give more information about how they will be possible in the organization.

Create the Project Schedule

One the objectives and the deliverables have been understood, the next process is to create a project schedule that will guide the delivery of the set deliverables in the organization.

Identify Issues and Complete a Risk Assessment

Any project that is carried out is faced by some issues and risks that the organizations have to deal with to ensure that most of the activities that are carried out as far as the project are concerned are beneficial to the organization.

Present the Project Plan to Stakeholders

The next step is to present the plan to the stakeholders after the planning is adequately done. This paper will therefore give information of what happens during this process.

Schedule a project kickoff meeting.

When a project reaches to this point, it means that it is ready to commence and that all the information that is available is important in the society. This paper will give information on what should be done to make sure that the implementation takes place in the process of project implementation.

Annotated bibliography

Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.

The book addresses a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling and provides information that will help in the current research. Subtopics such as understanding project management, variables for success, planning, pricing and estimating and cost control are important in the study since they provide the necessary information.

Larson, E. W., Gray, C. F., Danlin, U., Honig, B., & Bacarini, D. (2014). Project management: The managerial process (Vol. 6). Grandview Heights, OH: McGraw-Hill Education.

The book addresses the modern project management hence useful in the current study. It gives more information on the procedures and the issues to be considered when planning a project and what can make a project to be successful or not.

Saunders, M. N., & Lewis, P. (2012). Doing research in business & management: An essential guide to planning your project. Pearson.

The book gives guidelines on how to conduct research in business and management as an effective guide of planning a given business project. The guidelines that have been outlined in the paper are essential in the current research.

Kerzner, H. (2011). Using the project management maturity model: strategic planning for project management. John Wiley & Sons.

The book addresses the using the project management maturity model that is used in coming up with good and useful projects. The information is therefore essential in the current study hence should be considered in the research.

Zwikael, O., & Sadeh, A. (2007). Planning effort as an effective risk management tool. Journal of Operations Management, 25(4), 755-767.

The paper brings the risk management hence shows the risks that the people are likely to face in the whole process of project management. It addresses the risks that may impede the success of the project and gives the suggestions that can be followed to ensure the success of a particular project that is being implemented in the organization and in the society in general.

Hans, E. W., Herroelen, W., Leus, R., & Wullink, G. (2007). A hierarchical approach to multi-project planning under uncertainty. Omega, 35(5), 563-577.

There are many uncertainties that are associated with project management in the society. The paper addresses the hierarchical approach in the project management hence it informs the current research on the factors that are supposed to be prioritized and the one that should come below the hierarchy. The paper is therefore important in the current research hence should be considered.

Krüger, D., & Scholl, A. (2009). A heuristic solution framework for the resource constrained (multi-) project scheduling problem with sequence-dependent transfer times. European Journal of Operational Research, 197(2), 492-508.

The paper gives important information with regards to the project scheduling and what can be done to ensure that the schedule that has been proposed is useful in the planning and the implementation of the project.

Giezen, M. (2012). Keeping it simple? A case study into the advantages and disadvantages of reducing complexity in mega project planning. International Journal of Project Management, 30(7), 781-790

The paper addresses the importance of reducing complexity when carrying out a given project. It therefore informs the people of the importance to keep the plan and the general project simple for the benefit of the society.