Project Planning
Objective: Project Proposal
1. Context (what?)
- Background to your project - What's the problem? - Why is it interesting? - Set the scene; lay the foundations - Assume that the reader knows nothing |
2. Problem (why?)
- Bridge context to the specific problem your project seeks to address - Provide relative data to demonstrate the problem - Need to reference the sources used to gather data expressed |
3. Related work (who?)
- Need to show that you have an understanding of what has already been done to demonstrate you have a strong understanding of what is involved, to acknowledge existing work, and to ensure your team does not reinvent the wheel - Doesn't need to be completely specific to your particular problem, but related - Need to reference to show awareness of literature and to avoid plagiarism |
4. Solution (how?)
- How are you going to solve the problem? What is your approach? - How will you measure success? - Who are the stakeholders? Who will participate? - What is your Plan B? How will you manage risk? |
5. Aims and objectives (how?)
- Milestones against which your project is measured - Aims should be general statements about what you are trying to achieve - Objectives should be a more specific description of how the aims will be achieved |
6. Tasks and timetable (when?)
- Important to ensure that your team remain on schedule - Some milestones are fixed while others will be flexible - Break your project down into broad phases and then break each phase down into specific tasks; estimate how long each one will take - Include an Excel spreadsheet Gantt Chart to map out a timetable - Google Sheets Gantt Chart can be copied HERE |