Struggling to Create a Project Plan? Use These Tips. The best way to plan a project is to focus on the project’s deliverables. Start at the highest level with the projects overall objective and gradually break it down until you get to individual deliverables. I use mind mapping to achieve this. Don’t forget the more intangible deliverables like training and communications plans. Now look at the sequence the deliverables have to be created in. Next, take each deliverable and look at the tasks needed to create the deliverable. As for deliverables, look at the sequence of tasks to give you the task dependencies. Where you are dependent on someone outside the project to deliver something e.g. a part from a supplier or a system environment from IT, this is an external dependency and needs to be carefully monitored.
You now have a sequenced set of tasks to create the project’s deliverables. Now you need to estimate the effort required to deliver the tasks. Now allocate resources to the tasks. How can you deliver earlier? Traffic Live. Asana - Task Management for Teams. Trello. Your entire project in a single glance. Scrumwise - The Scrum tool you've always wanted. Project management software, online collaboration: Basecamp. Traffic Live.