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How plan, schedule, mission, vision & policy are explained to layman?

  by  Maryam Hussain What is a Plan? A plan is a document that aims to produce a workable schedule that will achieve project goals and serve as a standard against which actual progress can be measured. A plan defines: 1. What should be done (Objectives & activities) 2. How should activities be performed (methods) 3. Who should perform each activity and with what means (resources)   Objectives can be act of minimizing the time to complete all activities, these can be act of minimizing the number of activities that are completed after the committed due dates, and so on. Activities may be working of craftsman in a workshop, departures and arrivals of trains on a platform, stages in a construction project, or assembling the parts to build a computer. Methods may be the operating procedures; although detailed procedures are not within the scope of a plan and, rather, title, code & revision of applicable procedures are documented in the plan. Res...