These are the ingredients of good planning:

Time – critical path, contingency, crashing if required

Objective and priorities, how will success be measured?

Resources – required vs available.  Includes money, equipment, people etc

Team – involvement of the team wherever possible, who, skills required, mix of types

Obstacles and risk – plan for possible problems, bottlenecks, what is likely / serious, mitigation and remaining exposure after all actions have been taken

Inter-dependencies – other projects, overlaps or conflicts, resources (see the Resource Rissoles)

Stakeholders – power and attitude, RACI, what’s your comms plan for consult and inform?

Evaluate – improve the process for next time.

Onwards and upwards!

CC

PS this is one of many fruit and veg described in my book “Management Vegetables“

available on kindle

and as a full colour paper edition