To complete this report, you will need to prepare the following project planning information:
Project Summary which is the first and most important part of your project proposal, capture the attention of your readers and make a compelling point. Think of it as the elevator pitch for your project and focus on describing what success would look like. Here are some guiding questions to help you get started:
What problem does your project aim to solve?
Why is it important to solve it?
How will it help solve it?
Project Background in which you explain more detail about the problem you are solving and elaborating why the internal and external stakeholders should care about this project and back your claims with relevant references and statistics. Here are some guiding questions to help you get sorted out the project background:
What is the history of the problem? How long has it existed?
How is solving it related to the business goals of your organization?
Who my project stakeholder are like and what are their interests?
Explain your project’s Scope in which you explain more detail about the project goals and SMART objectives and elaborating what the project outcome, outputs and main activities and back your claims with relevant references and statistics. Here are some guiding questions to help you get started:
How will you solve the problem you described?
Why will the proposed solution be effective?
Why is the proposed solution better than alternatives?
What would it take to make it happen?
Project Plan also known as a project management plan that outlines the process you will use to manage the project according to scope to meet its stated SMART objectives. The purpose of a project plan is to map out the steps and resources it will take to complete a project on time and budget and back your claims with relevant references and statistics. Here are some guiding questions to help you get started:
How will you ensure that you do not have overly optimistic notions of what the project can accomplish in one, two, or three years, or of its effects on the world, will only detract from the proposal's chances of being approved?
How can I include my Project Team Organisational Chart?
How can I create my Project Network Diagram (Tasks, Critical Path, and Resources)?
How can I create my Project Gantt Chart?
How do I prepare my Project Cost Summary?
How do I conduct my Project Risk Analysis (Including external factors and assumptions)?
What sort of Implementation Arrangements are in place for my project?
How do I conduct my Project Tracking and Progress Reporting?
Conclusion where you tie it all together, share your experience of the project success and make some recommendations for future improvements
The topic of the report is to help the people that were hit by the floods. So, the goveronment helps in helping those people. I made up with the proposal of building a library in Lismore. I need guidelines to accomplish my report according to the project management. Thank a lot, in advance!
