How I Built It: Effective project-based planning
Author: Soumya Bhattacharya is a Certified Master Anaplanner and technology consultant at Accenture.
In this ‘How I Built It’ tutorial, I show how Anaplan can be used to demonstrate effective project-based planning. Also, how integrating a custom workday calendar can enhance the flexibility and accuracy of your planning process.
By using Anaplan for project-based planning, along with a custom workday calendar, you gain a powerful tool for managing projects that are dependent on a series of steps, while maintaining flexibility in the face of change and the ability model unforeseen scenarios as milestones to adjust your plan and manage org. specific workday calendars ensures that your projects stay on track, no matter the challenges that arise.
Key advantages:
- Step-by-step process management
A project-based plan helps when you have a structured, step-by-step process to follow. Here each task or stage is interdependent, meaning that each step can only begin once the preceding step is completed. This ensures that all tasks follow a logical sequence, allowing for efficient project flow. - Flexibility with milestones
It offers flexibility in project management by allowing you to add milestones to your plan. Milestones are key stages or checkpoints in your project. They give you the ability to adjust and "push" certain stages if needed. This is particularly useful for accommodating unforeseen scenarios — whether that’s delays, changes in scope, or shifts in project priorities. By modeling these as milestones, you can get real-time updates on project timelines and better manage risks. - Integration with custom workday calendars
One of the key benefits here of using this project planning is its integration with your organization’s specific workday calendar. By aligning the project plan with your company’s official working days, it ensures that only the relevant workdays are considered in the project timeline. This means weekends, holidays, or other non-working days are automatically factored into your project schedule, improving accuracy and flexibility.
Additional use cases such as:
- Financial budget planning where this will help telling you when your interdependent stages to be completed prior to get the plan ready on a specific date.
- Supply chain manufacturing process where you have series of process steps to be completed to manufacture a product, typically seen in A&D industry.
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Thank you @SoumyaBhattacharyaMA for sharing this. It'll be really useful in preparation of an effective & robust project plan! :)
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