Development directorate

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Development directorate

• Brown paper planning
• Spring 2007

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Brown paper planning

• What is it?
• A brown paper technique which uses the power of
  the team to plan a change implementation while
  building team ownership of the output
• It documents an entire implementation capturing
  roles, a timeline and activities shown in swim
  lanes
• It highlights all milestones, activities,
  interfaces, decision points and deliverables
• When would you use it?
• During the Develop stage, prior to Delivery
• Are there any rules?
• Dont plan alone always use the team by
  assigning responsibility among team members for
  each swim lane in the plan
• Start with milestones working back from right
  to left with the final deliverable first, then
  the subsidiary key milestone events/deliverables

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Brown paper planning starting point
Timeline
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sep
Design the four workshops
Workshop delivery
Workshop outputs forward planning
Swim lanes
Workstreams
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Expanding the plan milestones
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sep
Planning the four workshops
Workshop delivery
Workshop outputs forward planning
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Expanding the plan activities and dependencies
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sep
Planning the four workshops
Workshop delivery
Workshop outputs forward planning