Project Planning

Why is Project Planning so important? The answer is simply because decisions made in the early phase of the project will set the direction and force with which the project move forwards. As the project moves through its life cycle, the ability to influence the outcome of the project declines, this is so because the development of project is taking important step into the unknown with the hope of creating something that did not previously exist, as much information as possible is needed to predict the possible and probable outcomes.
Project Planning is an important part of the ‘deciding’ aspect of the project team’s job to think about the project future in relationship to its present in such a way that resources can be allocated in the best manner to suits the project’s proposal.
Project Planning involves the development of a strategy for the commitment of resources to support the project objectives and goals. Its, reflects the strategic plan of the organization in providing guidance in the likely forthcoming ‘strategic fit’ of the ‘stream of project’ in the organization.
Project Planning is a rational determination of how to initiate, sustain, and terminate a project. It’s interrelated with controls, and prescribes the path to be followed in executing the project. Controls in others hand are the means to collect, analyze, compare and correct, thus are an integral part of Project Planning.
Project Planning addresses work to be accomplished during a project to meet the defined goals and objectives. Its also identifies those activities and strategies that are detrimental to a project’s successful completion. The planning process entails a system of continual elaboration of details until there is visibility into the work.
The optimum Project Planning provides the appropriate level of detail to guide the performing to successful completion of the work. The most to remember is too much detail clouds the directions and makes the plan cumbersome, whereas too little detail might leaves gaps in the instructions and opens the door for error in work processes.
Thus, Project Planning should go parallel with its two brothers, Strategic Planning and Operation Planning so that the organization goals and objectives can be achieve and prospers will be with the organization.