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Project Plan Reality Check: Learn The Steps For Cross-Checking A Project Plan

The document discusses how to cross-check a project plan to verify its accuracy before final approval. It involves matching tasks, durations, resources, and budgets between the work breakdown structure, schedule, and network diagram. Errors found during cross-checking should trigger modifications to correct inconsistencies. Plans with over 3% errors require re-checking, while over 10% indicates further work is needed, focused on parts with recurring mistakes. Cross-checking catches errors and improves the plan's viability before implementation.

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Project Plan Reality Check: Learn The Steps For Cross-Checking A Project Plan

The document discusses how to cross-check a project plan to verify its accuracy before final approval. It involves matching tasks, durations, resources, and budgets between the work breakdown structure, schedule, and network diagram. Errors found during cross-checking should trigger modifications to correct inconsistencies. Plans with over 3% errors require re-checking, while over 10% indicates further work is needed, focused on parts with recurring mistakes. Cross-checking catches errors and improves the plan's viability before implementation.

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Project Plan Reality Check

Learn the steps for cross-checking


a project plan.
What is Project Cross-checking?
• Cross-checking the workability of a project
plan is a process by which one person lists
a procedure and another verifies it.
– With two separate and independent bodies
verifying the plan, chances for error decrease
substantially.
• Think of cross-checking as the reality
check before final approval of the project
plan.
Cross-check!
• Cross-check your planning efforts before
submitting your project plan for final
approval.
– This involves a line-by-line match-up of the
work breakdown structure (WBS), schedule,
budget and network diagram.
– Computer-based planning software is useful
in this task; however, you’ll still need to
personally and manually check the logistics
and project flow.
How to Cross-check a Project
Plan-1
• From the network diagram, match the
tasks, durations and dates to the
scheduling worksheet.
• From the network diagram, match the
resources to the scheduling worksheet.
• From the network diagram, match the task
to the activities shown in the work
breakdown structure.
How to Cross-check a Project
Plan-2
• Verify the numbers on the budgeting
worksheet and re-total them to ensure
they match your existing estimate.
• Study the tasks on your project’s critical
path.
– Is the right path selected?
– Are there any tasks that need more time?
– Have you separated labor required from the
duration on each task?
How to Cross-check a Project
Plan-3
• Verify that milestones make sense as a
means of summarizing the main activities
in a project.
• Check to see if the start and finish dates
are still reasonable.
• Verify that you have accounted for all
holidays and vacations in the schedule.
How to Cross-check a Project
Plan-4
• If you don’t have a work breakdown
structure or a network diagram, it will be
almost impossible to cross-check your
project.
• Larger, more complex projects will tend to
have more errors than smaller, simpler
ones.
How to Cross-check a Project
Plan-5
• If you find errors, you must modify the
project plan to correct them.
– If more than three (3) percent of the plan
requires modifications due to changes,
perform the cross-check all over again from
the very start one more time after the changes
are made.
– Review your notes from the previous
procedure.
How to Cross-check a Project
Plan-6
• A plan that changes more than ten (10%)
percent during cross-check needs further
work.
– Look at the errors to see where they are:
• Budget
• Resources
• Schedule
– If you spot a pattern to the mistakes so that
they appear mostly in one part of the plan,
redo that part of the plan from the beginning.
How to Cross-check a Project
Plan-7
• All steps of the plan need to be run past
the project team members before
submission for approval.
– If you have missed something, your project
team should be able to help you fill in the
gaps.

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