• Task Identification & Work Breakdown Structure
• Task Identification and Work Breakdown


• Assigning Resources
• Assigning Resources
• Team Roles and Responsibilities List
• Responsibility Allocation Matrix


• Identifying Dependencies
• Identifying Dependencies


• Estimating Work & Costs
• Estimating Work and Costs
• Estimating Process and Methods
• Pete's Estimating Laws
• Project Budgets and Cost Tracking
• Tools and Equipment List


• Project Schedule & Critical Path
• Project Schedule and Critical Path
• Scheduling Checklist
• Milestone Table with Driver Tasks


• Make Trade-offs & Optimize
• Make Trade-offs and Optimize
• Project Flexibility Matrix
• Project Alternatives Tradeoff Table
• Product and Project Risk Assessment and Mitigation Tables
• Risk Management Plan


• Create Project Plan Document
• Create Project Plan Document
• Generic Project Plan Document
• Project Plan Example – Small Project
• IT Project Plan Document
• Development Project Plan
• Software Project Plan

Pete's Estimating Laws

Summary: A loosely bound set of Universal Laws that provides the project manager with amusing insight into possible influences on our work estimates, and errors encountered when estimating work on a project. The information is presented with a degree of humor, but important realities are here.

This guideline will help you and your team ...

• Understand why estimates are not based on perfect data for estimating time and costs
• Identify strengths and weaknesses in your (and your team's) ability to estimate effectively

What you get:

• An overview of the estimating process, and how expectations, pressure and personal experience may affect it
• Pete's 18 laws for Estimating