Planning (recover)

Planning is the first step of starting a project. A plan should be a realistic perspective of all expectations such as minimum or maximum time and cost allowed for completing the project, expectable time clashes or member conflict, etc…
Often project planning is ignored in favour of getting on with the work. However, many people fail to realise the value of a project plan in saving time, money and many problems.

As first step will be setting project goals, identify your/your client’s intent and who is this project for, the audience or the users of the project output. Step Two will be using your project goals which defined in step one, make a list of objectives, see which could be best to use for those goals and also find out any difficulties or errors could be make by any situation. Step three - project schedule, list out the tasks, for each task identify the approximate time required to complete and which team member to assign on which task, and also set up a deadline for each task in case of time clashes or uncompleted scheme. Step Four – problem support, expect the unexpected, creates an optional or backup plan in case of any error.

Beside the project plan, there are few other plans to support the project to run smoothly, which will be Human Resource Plan as team member organization, details of each member; communication plan, define the communication tools to use between members on team collaboration; Risk Management Plan, we identify as much risks to our project as possible and prepared to fight them off if they happens.

Reference:
http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/project-planning-step-by-step.html