{"id":2216,"date":"2021-04-14T10:02:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T09:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.wordpress.com\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2021-02-12T10:11:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T10:11:45","slug":"a-practical-guide-to-project-planning-ten-key-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/14\/a-practical-guide-to-project-planning-ten-key-things\/","title":{"rendered":"A Practical Guide to Project Planning: Ten Key things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ten things that will you find in the Practical Guide to project planning – a step by step guide<\/a><\/strong> that you won’t find in other
planning books:<\/p>\n

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  1. It is written with you in mind!\u00a0<\/strong>We are not expecting you to be a guru, building the Olympic Park or managing High Speed 2, everyday projects are hard enough<\/li>\n
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    Successful planning is about people and behaviours! R<\/strong>ather than techniques and tools, the data needed for planning is assembled through a number of activities, not making up numbers to feed into a software package<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Business projects are different to technical projects!<\/strong>\u00a0So we have used a business project as the case study, these tend to be less predictable and have elements of different project types in them<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Moderating optimism!<\/strong>\u00a0We have included guidance on setting priorities, estimation and helping to moderate the optimism bias gives you more chance of finishing successfully<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  5. Planning lifecycle!<\/strong>\u00a0We have used a lifecycle that shows the stages and events that trigger planning activities, instead of giving you a list of techniques, we bring it to life for you. The focus is on “How” to plan rather than telling you “what” to do<\/li>\n
  6. \n
    Techniques at the right time!<\/strong>\u00a0Every step of the way we offer a technique to use at each point, with an explanation of what it does and how you should use it<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  7. Worked examples!<\/strong>\u00a0We illustrate each technique with a worked example based on a case study that provides an example of everyday challenges we face<\/li>\n
  8. Templates and tools!<\/strong>\u00a0All part of the process, but effective planning is based on having the right information available at the right time, the focus of the book is on systematically collecting this information<\/li>\n
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    Useful check-lists!<\/strong>\u00a0Common areas of failure for most projects, to help you avoid making them, we also include an example template on how to assemble your planning information<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Clear responsibilities and tasks<\/strong> for all the main roles involved with planning, which is everyone involved with the project!<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For more information on \u00a0the book and how to buy from The TSO, click here<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Ten things that will you find in the Practical Guide to project planning – a step by step guide that you won’t find in otherplanning books: It is written with you in mind!\u00a0We are not expecting you to be a guru, building the Olympic Park or managing High Speed 2, everyday projects are hard enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,36,13,25],"tags":[220,232,263,310,311,324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4358,"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/4358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}