Testing_112 : PMP (Project Management Plan)

Project Management Plan :

"The Project Manager creates the Project Plan for Project."

Purpose : To manage the project.

• Project planning is most time consuming project management activity.
• Continuous activity from initial concept through the system delivery. Plans must be regularly revised as new information become available.
• Various different types of plans (Test plans, Development plans, SQA plans and SCM plans) maybe developed to support the main software project plan that is concerned with schedule and budget.
• The project manager creates the project management plan based on following input documents.

Entry Criteria to prepare PMP :

• RFP(request of proposal)
• SOW(statement of work) or Work order
• project plan template

Exit Criteria to prepare PMP :

• Project plan should be reviewed & approved. Once PMP is approved, configuration controller will create baseline for PMP (PMP 1.0v) and he will update same in configuration repository (fireserver or VSS).

The main aspects in PMP :

• Score management
• Schedule management
• Resource management for resources like people, tools & others
• Communication management
• Project change management
• Risk management
• Data management

Table of content in PMP : 

  1) Introduction
    1.1) Purpose
    1.2) Scope
  2) Project description
  3) Commitment made to customer
  4) Quality objective and goal of the project
  5) Project initial & revision of estimates
    5.1) Size estimation
    5.2) Effort estimation
    5.3) Schedule estimation
  6) Project organization & responsibilities
    6.1) Team responsibilities
    6.2) Client Responsibilities
  7) Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) Model
  8) Requirement management plan
    8.1) Requirement change plan
  9) Risk
    9.1) Risk identification plan
    9.2) Risk strategy
10) Resource required
  10.1) Human resources
  10.2) Special tools & technique required
  10.3) Environment
     10.3.1) Development Environment
     10.3.2) Test Environment
     10.3.3) Pre-production Environment
     10.3.4) Production Environment
 11) Work Breakdown structure
 12) Deliverable
 13) Project reviews.