ABSTRACT
The project plan will describe in detail what the project must deliver – the project’s results – and the details of how to go about achieving this result. It forms a contract between the project’s manager and the team members on the one hand, and on the other, between the project manager and the sponsor. A team will often have to be assembled first. That team will then formulate a project plan. ‘Executing the project’, involves achieving the aimed-for objectives via a succession of interim results. 'Delivering the project’s results’, the project will have largely been completed. ‘Finalizing the project’, involves making preparations to implement the product that represents the project’s results and to monitor it. Projects never appear out of nowhere: they have their origins in someone’s head and they need someone to take the initiative and get the project underway. A project has been proposed and someone has set the ball rolling.
