Developing a Project Plan
Once you have decided upon the action/outcome that you are going to undertake you will need to start to develop a detailed project plan of what needs to be done. Your ideas right now are likely to be big picture stuff. You now need to start breaking these down into smaller pieces so that you can accomplish your goals and put these in a timeline of actions. As a group develop a flow chart for each action/outcome of everything that you think needs to be done at this time.
Make a copy of this Project Plan Template to help you start allocating all the workload that needs to be done, who is going to undertaking this and what resources you need in order to achieve it. Below are some of the major tasks that you will need to consider when carrying out this action plan.
Evaluate your Project Plan
Review the series of questions below once you have completed your Team Project plan to ensure that the action you have decided to undertake as a group will be viable and to also ensure you have considering all of this in your planning.
- Why is your group passionate about the topic area that you have chosen to take action on?
- What do we hope to achieve by carrying out this Team Project and what is our proposed outcome?
- Will we be able to critically evaluate your outcome in terms of how far it’s been successful, or not, and link these to your overarching aims of your Team Project?
- What do you need to do/find out to achieve this outcome?
- Who is going to do what and when?
- Does our Team Project have enough scope for every group member to play a full part in the group work?
- Is the workload manageable within the timeframe you have?
- What plans do you have for gathering information and opinions/viewpoints that are drawn from personal, local/national and global sources?
- How can you ensure that you look at the issue from different angles so that you can show different perspectives?
- How are the information and views gathered going to be reflected in our Team Project outcome?
- Does your outcome need to be accompanied by some additional explanation or elaboration?