Pre-Construction		Online Guide
		Plan the Work		Process
Overview				Revision March 2006
Summary:	Planning the Work is the portion of the project management process that produces the Project Management Plan. The Project Management Plan describes both the Project Performance Baseline—the project deliverables and the schedule and budget plans for delivering them—and the Project Management Methods that will be used by the project team during their delivery. The detailed planning needed to establish a Project Management Plan begins during the Initiate and Align the Team process and continues throughout the remainder of the project. Failing to Plan, is Planning to Fail
Inputs:	· Completed Initiate and Align Worksheet · Capital Program Management System (CPMS)
Steps:	Establish Project Performance Baseline		Establish Project Management Plans
	The Project Performance Baseline documents the project team’s detailed planning for the performance of the project within the scope, schedule, and budget parameters established by Region/Organization Management. The Baseline identifies all of the deliverables to be produced, the sequences and schedule for their production, and the budgets allocated for their performance. Developing the Project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) using the Master Deliverables List (MDL) Tailoring and completing the project-specific Work Breakdown Structure based on the Master Deliverables List (MDL) Task Planning and Scheduling Using the Project Work Breakdown Structure to identify specific work tasks and setting them in a time-phased format: the Performance Baseline Schedule. Validate Budgets Validating the Programmed Project Budget from CPMS through comparison with specific Project Planning. Affect of funding on uncertainty on Environmental Permitting and supporting Design Elements. Environmental permit decisions are based on detailed design elements that support the analysis and understanding of project impacts and proposed mitigation. When projects are shelved, the likelihood is high that such design elements will become obsolete due to new environmental laws and regulations and/or changed environmental conditions in the project area. Therefore, when construction funding is uncertain, a risk assessment should be conducted with the Assistant Regional Administrator for Project Development and the Regional Environmental Manager to consider limiting or stopping work on the design elements that support environmental permitting. Risk Planning Risk Planning is the systematic process of identifying, analyzing, and developing appropriate response plans for project risk throughout the life of a project. It is performed in conjunction with the development of the Project Performance Baseline to allow the incorporation of Risk Monitoring and Response measures into the Project Performance Baseline.		The development of performance plans for critical Project Management processes provides the project team with procedures and tools to direct their performance and confirm the project team’s commitment to performance within department and Region/Organization Management methods and requirements. Change Management Plan Developing a plan for identifying, quantifying, approving, and reporting changes to the baseline (scope, schedule and budget). Quality Plan Quality Planning involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them. The activities of the quality planning process basically translate existing quality policy and standards into a Quality Plan and the Quality Plan into a Quality Compliance Matrix for documenting performance and results. Communication Plan The Communication Plan addresses the information needs of all participants, stakeholders, the public, and the media. It focuses two the major facets of project communication process: · Project Working and Reporting Information · Public Information, including Community Outreach and Media Relations. Transition and Closure Plan The Transition and Closure Plan outlines the points in the project at which formal Transition and Closure activities will take place, the requirements of each transition event, and the process steps that will be taken to accomplish an efficient and effective transition.
Products:	· Completed Project Management Plan
Guidelines:	N/A