Summary

This chapter started you on the road to project planning via the Develop Project Management Plan process, the Collect Requirements process, the Define Scope process, and the Create WBS process. We covered a lot of material in this chapter. Everything you’ve learned so far becomes the foundation for further project planning.

The output of the Develop Project Management Plan process is the project management plan, which is concerned with defining, coordinating, and integrating all the ancillary project plans and baselines. The purpose of this plan is to define how the project is executed, how it’s monitored and controlled, and how it’s closed.

The Collect Requirements process involves gathering and documenting the requirements of the project. It’s important that requirements be measurable, traceable, testable, and so on. Measurement criteria for project requirements are agreed upon by the stakeholders and project manager. Additionally, requirements should be tracked in a traceability matrix that documents where they originated, the results of the tests, the priority of the requirement and more.