Software Engineering

7.7 
Step 7: Project planning
The project management team, with support from the lead software engineer, 
should utilize the technical plans to establish or revise the project plans and sched-
ules. Work packages for project management activities, such as project control, cost 
tracking, configuration, and data management, should be integrated with technical 
work package descriptions. These integrated project work packages are utilized to 
establish an IMP and IMS, project-level WBS, and budgets.
This general flow for establishing project plans is intended to ensure that tech-
nical and project plans accurately reflect stakeholder needs, specified software 
requirements, and focus on the achievement of project objectives. This approach is 
facilitated by a stakeholder requirements analysis activity that explores the problem 
area and assesses software design solutions and alternatives. Once a software solu-
tion is recognized, the project, technical, and organizational plans must be revised 
to provide an accurate and consistent representation of the work to be performed. 
This planning sequence emphasizes the importance of conducting adequate soft-
ware engineering analysis to generate the software requirement specifications that 
guide technical and project planning efforts. This is intended to ensure that the soft-
ware development effort is driven by the stakeholder needs and software require-
ments rather than erroneous and inaccurate project plans developed at the onset of 
the project.

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