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Activities

For projects requiring TB approval, this project planning process is executed first to prepare the PPA at a sufficient level of detail to permit the initial assessment. Where TB PPA approval is attained, this planning process is executed again to produce more detailed plans and estimates required to prepare the EPA submission.

No.	Activity	Detail of Activities and Remarks
1	Requirements Management	Identify stakeholder needs and translate into product requirements. Based on the requirements, enumerate the project deliverables. Note: This is a critical project activity and should be performed rigorously. It may constitute a significant portion of the project and a separate plan may be required depending on the project characteristics.
2	Identify corporate processes	Identify the project's corporate processes required to meet the project requirements.
3	Decompose Requirements	Breakdown the project deliverables into manageable components thereby creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Review WBS with project stakeholders. If requirements are divided into interdependent individual projects a multi project plans will be required to cover interdependencies and integration.
4	Estimate Product Size	Estimate Product Size for each product element using your organisation's estimation methods, tools and techniques.
5	Estimate Project Resources	Estimate Project Resources using your organisation's estimation methods, tools and techniques.
6	Develop Project Management Plan	Describe the project management processes that will be used through the project lifecycle including the ongoing management of: Schedule Cost budget Acceptance Gating Start-up Tracking (reporting, issue/problem management, requirement management) Change management Reporting requirements Note: For projects requiring TB approval, the project plan and estimates are created in preliminary (for EPA) and detailed (for PPA) versions as described in "Approving the Project".
7	Develop Corporate Plans	Corporate plans include Quality, Risk, HR, Communications, Performance, Configuration, Procurement, Requirements, IM/IT (Software development), and Validation and Verification plans. The detail planning of the corporate processes may be documented in the Project Management Plan or in separate documents. There may be not a need to develop a Requirements plan if a Requirement Specification is produced in the Planning Stage. Depending on the project characteristics the corporate plans may be incorporated into one plan, or the overall project management plan
8	Negotiate commitment and approval	Review project plan(s) with project stakeholders to obtain commitment and approval to proceed to the next project stage.