A project is defined as a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service. It involves planning a set of tasks or activities to achieve specific goals or objectives. Planning is a key part of project management and involves selecting objectives, deciding on actions to achieve them, and making decisions that will affect the future. The principles of effective planning include keeping aims clear, developing accurate forecasts, involving subordinates, ensuring plans are feasible, avoiding overoptimism, and reviewing long-term plans regularly. Planning introduces orderly thinking and structure to management.

1. Project, Planning, Management
and Development
Project means,
Small piece of research work done by a
student
An enterprise
A plan
An idea
A temporary venture
Forecast
Predict

2. Continuation of meaning of a project
 Estimate
 Calculate
 Design
 Activity
 Program
 Deal

3. Continuation of meaning of a project
 A project is a series of tasks that need to be
completed to reach a specific outcome.
 A project can also be defined as a set of inputs
and outputs required to achieve a particular
goal.

4. A project is a set of tasks which must be
completed in order to arrive at a particular
goal or outcome. Depending on the size and
scope of the project, these tasks may be
simple or elaborate, but all projects can be
broken down into objectives and what needs
to be done to achieve them

5. • Organizations and individuals manage projects
with a wide range of objectives. These can
take many forms, from constructing a building,
to planning an event and even completing a
certain duty. Retailers, for example, may
pursue projects that improve the way they
track order fulfillment. Construction teams
complete projects any time they plan and
build something—and so on

6. PLANNING
• Planning involves selecting missions and
objectives and the actions to achieve them, it
requires decision making, that is choosing
future courses of action from among
alternatives

7. PLANNING
• Planning is considered to be central function
of management and determines the
organizations direction.
• Planning is a rational and systematic way of
making decisions today that will affect the
future of-----

8. PURPOSE OF PLANNING
• Planning is an intellectual activity
• Planning involves selection among alternatives
• Planning is forward looking
• Planning ensures economical operation
• Recognition of social responsibility
• Uncertainty caused by trade cycles

9. PURPOSE OF PLANNING
• Dynamic management
• Cost – benefits analysis
• Planning affects performance
• Planning puts focus on objectives
• Planning anticipates problems and
uncertainties
• Planning is necessary to facilitate control

10. PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING
• Keep aims crystallized (Clear)
• Develop accurate forecasts
• Involve subordinates in the planning process
• Planning should be sound one
• Don’t be over optimistic
• Decide in advance the criteria for abandoning
a project

11. PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING
• Keep your plan flexible
• Fit the plan to environment
• Review long range plans on a short range basis

12. PLANNING
• Unplanned administration is
• Haphazard
• Unorganized,
• Scattered,
• Disorderly
• Confusing

13. Planning is simply the introduction of
orderly thinking

14.  Planning should be SMART
 S Specific
 M Measurable
 A Achievable
 R Relevant
 T Time bound