Project Planning


Because you need your team members devoting most of their time to complete project work, you don’t want to overallocate them with onerous planning and  reporting. For this reason you must have a process specifically set up for collecting project progress information.

Why is it important to plan?
Succesfull projects are measured against the initial planning, this is why is highly important to have a clear project plan. Effective project planning is therefore vital to ensure organisations achieve their  project  objectives.

What will Ecostar Plan do?
Ecostar Plan has over 10 years of proven project experience in a diverse range of industries, having a team of experienced planning engineers who are able to understand client’s requirements and produce and maintain thedetailed project schedule, helping your team to be on time, on scope and on cost.

Our team is experienced in using software as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, Oracle Primavera P6 or others, understanding that this are only tools, being important to know also global PM standards as Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) developed by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Our planners understand that effective communication and acting as a key interface liasing with all the project stakeholders is a major role as planning engineer. 

 

Project Planning Services

TIME

S Curve Reporting- Analysis
Schedule Management Plan
Duration estimates
Activities/milestones list
Schedule Network Diagram
Schedule Compression
Resources Optimization
Schedule Integration
Critical Path Analysis
Baseline– Gantt Chart

RISK

Risk Planning
Qualitative & Quantitative Risk Analysis
Risk Evaluation & Treatment
Schedule & Cost  Level of Confidence

RESOURCES

Resource Breakdown Structure
RACI Chart
Resources/Roles Allocation
Resources Calendar
Resource Usage Profile
Resource Stacked Histogram

SCOPE

Work Breakdown Structure
Progress Measurement Procedure
ProjectConstraints/Interfaces  Scope Baseline– S Curve

COST

Cost Estimation
Cash Flow-Payment Milestones
Bill of Quantity
Cost Baseline S Curve

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Key benefits of project planning to your company

By investing in our planning support services your organisation will gain:

  • A fully developed and updated project plan in terms of scope, time and cost
  • Better resource planning and improved cash flow reporting
  • Improved reporting and buy-in from the key project stakeholders
  • Increased control over project interdependencies
  • Increased ownership of key project activities
  • Real time reporting (from detailed to summary)
  • Realistic budget reporting & forecasts
  • Earned Value Analysis
  • Pictorial representation of project progress
  • Working procedures by using company’s software
  • Overall reduction in project reporting time
  • Projects and benefits delivered on time