STRUCTURE OF PLANS

Plans will be developed at different activity levels to satisfy the project control needs for different stakeholders in the program management team and different phases of the project.

All plans developed across the program must meet Quality Control guidelines.

Level 1 – Program Plan

The program plan is the key document deliverable for the Schedule Manager who maintains the plan for the Steering Committee and Program Manager.  The program plan must incorporate the complete program scope of works and the key program milestones and dependencies.  The program plan will include Work Breakdown Activities to level 3 and include resource profile at this level.  The program plan defines the structure of the project plans which sit beneath it.  An important quality control element for the Schedule manager is to ensure the alignment of the WBS between the Program plan and the individual project plans.

Level 2 – Project Plan

A project (or workstream) plan is utilized by a Project manager to deliver the scope of work they are responsible for.  The work breakdown structure of a project plan is defined by the Program plan which in the plan hierarchy sits above it.  The schedule progress of activities in the individual project plans must roll up to the higher level WBS activities in the Program plan.  The quality standards for a project plan are the same as the quality standards for the program plan.

Level 3 – Team Plans

For some larger activities in the program, individual team plans will be required to track in detail the progress of those activities.  For example the development of 150 design documents will be better suited to track as an individual team plan which can be rolled into one activity in the program plan.  For team plans the tool used will generally not be standard Schedule Management tools but tools that are suited to the needs of the team producing the deliverables.  Report outputs from team tracking tools will be used by the Schedule Manager to update the status of the program plan.