Successful Project Management

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Preparing a Project Plan

Learning Objectives By the end of this chapter, you should be able to: • Describe the process of progressively elaborating the initial project plan. • Identify staffing and resource requirements for a project. • Describe how to build the project team and prepare a responsibility assignment matrix (RAM). • Explain the concepts of loading and leveling a project schedule. • Describe the roles of outsourcing and procurement planning. • Perform critical path method (CPM) calculations and explain the circumstances in which they are appropriate. • Develop a communications and stakeholder management plan.

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