Integrate Plans

This specific practice extends the specific practices for establishing and maintaining a project plan to address additional planning activities such as incorporating the project’s defined process, coordinating with relevant stakeholders, using organizational process assets, incorporating plans for peer reviews, and establishing objective entry and exit criteria for tasks. The development of the project plan should account for current and projected needs, objectives, and requirements of the organization, customer, and end users, as appropriate.

• Integrate other plans that affect the project with the project plan. Other plans that affect the project may include:
  • Quality assurance plans
  • Configuration management plans
  • Risk management strategy
  • Documentation plans
• Incorporate into the project plan the definitions of measures and measurement activities for managing the project. Examples of measures that would be incorporated include:
  • Organization’s common set of measures
  • Additional project-specific measures
• Identify and analyze product and project interface risks. Examples of product and project interface risks include :
  • Incomplete interface descriptions
  • Unavailability of tools or test equipment
  • Availability of COTS components
  • Inadequate or ineffective team interfaces
• Schedule the tasks in a sequence that accounts for critical development factors and project risks. Examples of factors considered in scheduling include:
  • Size and complexity of the tasks
  • Integration and test issues
  • Needs of the customer and end users
  • Availability of critical resources
  • Availability of key personnel
• Incorporate the plans for performing peer reviews on the work products of the project's defined process.
• Incorporate the training needed to perform the project’s defined process in the project’s training plans. This task typically involves negotiating with the organizational training group the support they will provide.
• Establish objective entry and exit criteria to authorize the initiation and completion of the tasks described in the work breakdown structure (WBS).
• Ensure that the project plan is appropriately compatible with the plans of relevant stakeholders. Typically the plan and changes to the plan will be reviewed for compatibility.
• Identify how conflicts will be resolved that arise among relevant stakeholders.