CHAPTER 3
Project Plan Development
The first major integration of the project’s budget, schedule, and scope occurs in the development stage of the project, when the project team creates its detailed plan. At a minimum, that plan contains the project’s work breakdown structure, a budget, a linear responsibility matrix, a network diagram, and a schedule. This chapter explains how the project team combines historical information and the cost rates found in the parent organization’s resource breakdown structure to make tradeoffs between resource use and schedule time to build an integrated project plan. A full understanding of these tradeoffs depends ...
