| A | B |
| Setting Objectives | Provides a specific focus for the project team and the project stakeholders. |
| Assumptions | Things you believe to be true and on which you base some of your planning. |
| Preparing a Budget | Helps you plan the number/size of products, resources and contingency. |
| Product Quality | Determines if the product good enough to do the job for which it is intended. |
| Work Assignments | Determines all necessary tasks and subtasks. |
| Awareness of Dependencies | To understand the relationship between activities. |
| Project Control | Following activities you perform to ensure that your project proceeds according to plan. |
| Status Reporting | Work done, deviations, impact, issues and corrective action. |
| Change Requests | When what was committed to your stakeholders must be altered. |
| Lessons Learned | Explains the processes that were either effective or ineffective and why. |
| Benefits | Realized as either or both tangible or intangible. |