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LESSON 4: VALIDATING PROJECT PLANS

Learning Objectives

• Analyze project plans for revenue and profitability

Introduction
In the Planning phase of a project’s lifecycle, the project team creates the plan for who
will work on the project and what materials may be needed over the life of the project.
Plans need to be validated for all key metrics and created within the approved
thresholds provided by the management team.

Validating Project Plans

Organizations may have many steps, processes and reviews before a project’s plan is
approved as the baseline plan. Several of the elements that help validate a project plan
include the following:

Plans within the Period of Performance

Unanet planning features allow for plans to be created at either the project or task level
and before or after the start and end dates of the project and/or tasks. However, it is
recommended to create the plans at the same level (project or task) as you intend to
execute the work as well as use the boundaries of the revised start and end dates to
best represent how the project will actually be executed.

Lesson 4: Validating Project Plans
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