“If You Fail to Plan, You Are Planning to Fail”

— Benjamin Franklin

Leveraging a Standardized Project Plan Across Projects

Now it’s time to make the rubber meet the road. An effective, easy-to-use (and understand) project plan keeps your project efforts and team members on track. Once again, utilizing the instructional development model along with the project workflow as reference, I utilize a project plan template that leverages a standard work breakdown structure (WBS) that can be used on every project.

• This WBS covers tasks throughout a project’s lifecycle; and pre-assigning roles to each task enables quick task assignment and responsibilities when it’s time to execute.

• Managing multiple projects for multiple clients requires this level of management. Teams stay on track and, more importantly, critical tasks are completed on time instead of falling through the cracks.

• The project planning tool depicted here is TeamGantt. I find this online tool to be very easy to use to collaborate across multiple team members and clients.