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Planning and Managing IT Infrastructure

Notes  Core Processes: Some planning processes have clear dependencies that require them to be
performed in essentially the same order on most projects.

Example: Activities must be defined before they can be scheduled or costed.
These core planning processes may be iterated several times during any one phase of a
project.
They include:

 Scope Planning – developing a written scope statement as the basis for future project
decisions.
 Scope Definition – subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller, more
manageable components.
 Activity Definition – identifying the specific activities that must be performed to
produce the various project deliverables.

 Activity Sequencing – identifying and documenting interactivity dependencies.
 Activity Duration Estimating – estimating the number of work periods that will be
needed to complete individual activities.

 Schedule Development – analysing activity sequences, activity durations, and resource
requirements to create the project schedule.
 Risk Management Planning – deciding how to approach and plan for risk management
in a project.

 Resource Planning – determining what resources (people, equipment, materials) and
what quantities of each should be used to perform project activities.
 Cost Estimating – developing an approximation (estimate) of the costs of the resources
required to complete project activities.
 Cost Budgeting – allocating the overall cost estimate to individual work activities.
 Project Plan Development – taking the results of other planning processes and putting
them into a consistent, coherent document.
 Facilitating Processes: Interactions among the other planning processes are more dependent
on the nature of the project.

Example: On some projects, there may be little or no identifiable risk until after
most of the planning has been done and the team recognises that the cost and schedule
targets are extremely aggressive and thus involve considerable risk.
Although these facilitating processes are performed intermittently and as needed during
project planning, they are not optional.
They include:
 Quality Planning – identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and
determining how to satisfy them.

 Organisational Planning – identifying, documenting, and assigning project roles,
responsibilities, and reporting relationships.
 Staff Acquisition – getting the human resources needed assigned to and working on
the project.

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