Other Planning - Procurement Planning

Procurement management

• Sometimes external resources are needed to provide the project deliverables
• Procurement management involves activities from deciding to purchase a product to selecting the external party to produce the product

Other Planning - Risk Planning

Risk Planning

• Risks are events that can potentially affect the project outcome in a bad way (e.g. delay in shipment, software not compatible with operating systems)
• Risk planning deals with how you manage these areas of uncertainty
• Risk planning has three components:
• Risk Identification – identifying the possible risk. By asking question such as what are the areas that is unfamiliar or complex or easily influenced by external factor
• Risk Analysis – determine impact of the risk
• Risk response – action taken in response to the risk that is the most serious

Other Planning - Communications Planning

Communication Planning

• Good communication is key to project success
• A project manager needs to constantly communicate project related information to stakeholder
• Need to determine
• WHAT to communicate
• TO WHOM to communicate
• HOW to communicate
• WHY or purpose