1. 1 The short project Planning, management and control

2. 2 How project plans help To show how a specific goal will be reached To make things happen To give structure and sequence to activities To show relationships between activities To manage and control time scale To manage and control costs To ensure that several events come together to achieve a desired result at some point in the future

3. 3 What do project plans do? To think about key aspects before you begin To decide feasibility To deliberately set SMART objectives To decide what needs to be done In what order? By who? By when? To establish a project finish date

4. 4 Why use it? To save time and money To visualise complex issues and activities To get consensus and commitment from a team To provide a early warning system To explore options Project planning is simply a tool It helps to make best use of a valuable commodity TIME !!

5. 5 The project life cycle AdjustMonitor The ‘Loop’

6. 6 Simple planning techniques Calendar Timetable Timeline / GANTT chart Activity list Activity diagram Flow chart

7. 7 Timeline / GANTT chart

8. 8 Flow chart

9. 9 The triple constraints Time constraints Performance constraints Financial constraints