Planning is where you define how you’ll do the work. It’s the most detailed phase and includes scheduling, budgeting, assigning tasks, and setting goals.

🔑 Key Concepts:
• Planning covers scope, schedule, budget, risks, resources, communications, procurement, and quality.
• Build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to divide the work into small, manageable tasks.
• All goals should be SMART:
• Specific, Measurable, Acceptable, Realistic, Time-based.
• Define all deliverables and requirements (functional, non-functional, business, user, regulatory).
• Create a Requirements Traceability Matrix to track every requirement throughout the project.
• Remember the 100% Rule in WBS: each level must include 100% of the work from the level above.
• Planning helps prevent confusion, missed expectations, and wasted resources.