
re we going to d…e cycle. Get it wrong, and you’ll scupper your chances of delivering the project on time and budget. Planning is where you define all the work to be done and create the roadmap that you follow for the remainder of the project to get you there. It’s during planning phase that you figure out how you’re going to perform the project and answer the questions — what exactly are we going to do, how are we going to do it, when are we going to do it, and how will we know when we’re done?
Typically for Prince2 or PMI methodologies, these are summed up in a Project Initiation Document (PID) but in an agency, the information is usually captured in an initial statement of work (SoW) which covers the initiation phase only.
That usually necessitates identifying the project stakeholders and making sure they all share the same perception of what the project is and agree on the business case — the problem that the project is trying to solve. It’s during project initiation phase too that you decide whether it is feasible to deliver the bus…