Creating Project Plan/Project Charter

The project plan document contains all the information that you have collected until now. Your project plan can contain the following sections:

1.    Project management approval page 2.    Executive summary 3.    Objectives 4.    Project assumptions &  risks 5.    Project vision, scope & goals 6.    Deliverables 7.    Stakeholders 8.    Resources 9.    Roles & Responsibilities 10.  Communication plan

11.    Training plan 12.    Schedule 13.    Costs 14.    Processes & procedures 15.    Configuration plan 16.    Change management plan 17.    Test plan 18.    Supporting  tools & environments 19.    Risks management plan 20.    Measurement & Metrics plan

Note that some of the information in your project plan was already in the SOW and project charter and by now you have surely updated it given that you have progressed in your project, and gained valuable knowledge that you did not have during the initiating process. Also, depending on the size/complexity of your project you can choose to include or not some of the above sections.

The high level project plan may also be called the Project Charter. The Project Charter is a statement of the scope, objectives and participants in a project. It provides a preliminary delineation of roles and responsibilities, outlines the project objectives, identifies the main stakeholders, and defines the authority of the project manager. It serves as a reference of authority for the future of the project.