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"Project Management Plan Checklist"

As a project manager one of the most comprehensive and important documents you will have to produce is the project plan. This plan contains all the key information that you need to manage, monitor and implement your project successfully.

The plan should begin with a management summary that provides the project stakeholders with a high-level view of the project objective. It should also outline the deliverables and benefits your organization will gains from completion of the project. Note that for larger projects, some of the sections detailed below would be self-contained subsidiary plans.

In the case of smaller projects, this plan can serve as a self-contained planning document. However, in larger projects it makes more sense to create a series of subordinate plans for each functional area (scope, budget, schedule, risk, quality, human resources, etc). 

Using the project plan as a parent plan that refers to these subordinate plans prevents it from becoming too lengthy and complex. The following outline provides a good foundation for a project management plan but you will need to use your own judgment about which sections to use and how much detail to go into.

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