Planning / v1.0 clean-room
Stage Plan
Define the work, controls, and decisions for the current management stage.
When to use
Use before each stage starts and refresh when tolerances are threatened.
Minimum version
- Stage goal
- Products
- Milestones
- Work packages
- Tolerances
- Decision points
Fuller version
- Resource profile
- Quality checks
- Dependencies
- Supplier commitments
- Assurance activities
Field guide
- Stage objective
- Products
- Schedule
- Budget
- Risks
- Controls
- Approvals
Tailoring notes
- Use rolling-wave detail for agile or hybrid delivery
- Increase checkpoint frequency for recovery work
Common mistakes
- Planning the whole project in stage-level detail
- Not tying work packages to products