• 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

Software Project Plan

Summary: A thorough and detailed template for creating a software development plan, with annotations. It includes making tradeoffs on scope, resources, schedule and other issues with a quality focus, Excel worksheets for capacity planning, and much more.

This guideline will help you and your team ...

• Develop a project plan which covers areas highly-specific to software development projects

What you get:

• Instructions for using the template
• Sample Software Project Plan with annotations and example text