Software Project Planning

[rjames]

Project Planning is an aspect of Project Management that focuses a lot on Project Integration. The project plan reflects the current status of all project activities and is used to monitor and control the project.

The Project Planning tasks ensure that various elements of the Project are coordinated and therefore guide the project execution.

Project Planning helps in
- Facilitating communication
- Monitoring/measuring the project progress, and
- Provides overall documentation of assumptions/planning decisions

The Project Planning Phases can be broadly classified as follows:
- Development of the Project Plan
- Execution of the Project Plan
- Change Control and Corrective Actions

Project Planning is an ongoing effort throughout the Project Lifecycle.

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[klorpet]

Nice summary, if anyone wants more indepth details on software project planning they should check out this link: Goverment summary and example for Software Project Planning
It covers the subject pretty well.