Project Management Planning
Project Plan Format
Initial Release
1.0
Date:
January 1997
the early stages and, at project start-up time, contains the detail required to
successfully execute the project. Once project execution begins, the plan should
be reviewed, baselined, and updated on a regular basis.
It is important that project plans are approved prior to beginning a project.
Plan Approval
These approvals should be easily located at the beginning of the plan to
emphasize support for the project plan. In the template format, approval
signatures are included on the cover of the plan, as shown below.
Project Management Plan Approval Signatures Form
(Page one of the sample)
PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN
Project Name: Document Handling System
August 1, 1996
Date:_______________________________
1.0
Plan Release #:_______________________
John Smith
Project Manager: _____________________
:
Approvals
John Smith
Betty White
Project Manager
Prime Contractor Manager - If applicable
Tom Snow
Steve Brown
State Organization Mangement
User Management
Faye McNeill
Peter Chan
Oversight Manager (if applicable)
DOIT
Gene Tim
Tina Black (DGS)
Department of Finance)
Other:
Project Management Methodology
PM Planning
Project Plan Format
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