#planningphase

This phase is all about clarity and alignment. The core activities usually include:

Identifying Stakeholders Who are the people or groups affected by this project? Who has a say in the outcome? Getting this list right early ensures no one important is left out.

Defining Objectives and Scope What exactly is the project trying to achieve? And just as importantly what is not part of the plan? This keeps the project focused and manageable.

Gathering Requirements What needs to be done to meet the project goals? This could include business needs, technical specs, or user expectations.

Assessing Feasibility Is this project realistic? Can it be done with the time, budget, and resources available?

Conducting Initial Risk Assessment What could go wrong and how can we prepare for it?

Outlining Deliverables and Success Criteria What will the project actually deliver? And how will we know if it’s successful?

Outputs from This Phase

After completing this phase, the project team should have:

A Project Charter a document that summarizes the project’s purpose, scope, goals, stakeholders, and constraints.

A clear Scope Statement defining what’s included and what’s not.

A Preliminary Project Plan with rough timelines and milestones.

An Initial Risk Log listing potential issues and mitigation strategies.

Roles and Responsibilities so everyone knows who’s doing what.

Risks This Phase Helps Minimize

By taking time to define the project upfront, several common risks can be avoided:

Scope Creep when the project keeps growing because there was no clear boundary from the start.

Unclear Goals leading to confusion, wasted effort, or unmet expectations.

Stakeholder Conflict when people aren’t on the same page or weren’t included early.

Budget and Time Overruns because of poor planning or unrealistic expectations.

Total Project Failure often caused by lack of direction or misaligned priorities.

Why It All Matters

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It has been quite a while since I have done anything with this blog but I hope that things will quiet down now and I can get a good year of gardening in.  It is a little early to start with much of anything though.   I will probably use today to order some seeds and get some early greens started in another week or so.   I need to get down to the basement and clean out my hydroponics and prep them for a new batch of plants.  If I am able to keep up on my school work for college and keep over time down at work I might try to build and ebb and flow table for the backyard...ugh I don’t even want to think about the work that needs to go into the backyard this year.

The important part is I am thinking about it again and I really hated not having time to put a garden in last year.  This year hopefully I will be able to make up for it.  I plan on putting 2 or 3 more 4x8 raised beds in this year so that I can properly space my plants out, unlike the first year.   I want to do one for my soon to be 4 year old son as well so he can have some of his favorite plants in it.