Top 3 Project Planning Steps

Good planning is the start of every successful project, today we're talking about the top three project planning steps and planning is one of the most critical phases of the project plans can get very complex but what I want to talk about today. Are some ways that you can make them more simple but first of all let's talk about a plan. 

So plan can be demonstrated through either a diagram or a list of steps and when we talk about the plan what we're really talking about is: 

1-what is the project? 

2-what are we actually delivering through this project? 

3-when is it due to one of the major milestones? One of the critical steps all along the way 

4-who is involved?

5-who do we need to deliver this project?
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So a plan is basically a better way to manage everything that you have to do and everywhere you have to be during this project. So let's talk about the three steps...watch the video or continue reading the text below this video.

Remember in your project you have a specific start date and end date for this entire project and through the project you're delivering a unique result and some people like to call that a deliverable so the first step is to paint a picture set a vision for the people on your team not only your team but your stakeholders and any vendor partners let them know the story of this project if you're building a building and it happens to be a school let them know why that school is so important then you take the time to create a timeline for each of the components for instance if it's a school you had the foundation you may have the framing you may have the internal things like the utilities even the roofing landscaping different parts of this project and each one of those parts have different times that their view they have critical dependencies and they have milestones that you want to identify for the project the third step is to build a team identify who do you have and who do you need for this project and also clarify what skills what training and what expertise do they need and also make sure they're available during different times of the here are different situations they may or may not be available and I found as a bonus to go back for your project team and paint that picture again let them see themselves in the picture and let them know why they're so important to this project.