Traditional Planning

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 Traditional education is defined as teacher-centered delivery of instruction to classes of
students who are the receivers of information. Traditional schools generally stress basic
educational practices and expect mastery of academic learning in the core subjects of
math, reading, writing, science and social studies.
Traditional planning
 The traditional planning model is designed to support planning for a project
based on the Formal Project management process template, which comprises a
set of sequential phases (Requirements, Design, Implementation, and Testing).
To follow a traditional planning model, use the Formal Project Management
process template, which supports a formal, or traditional, planning process.
The Formal Project Management process template provides these customized work
items:

 Project Change Request: Defines a change to the agreed scope and objectives
of the project to accommodate a requirement that was not originally defined to be
part of the project.
 Business Need: Describes a feature, an API, or an improvement to add to the
product. A business need explains the work at a high level so that everyone can
understand what the work is without having to understand the detail.
 Risk: Identifies an uncertain event that can negatively affect the project. This
type of work item includes a matrix to calculate the probability and impact of the
risk.
 Risk Action: Defines what must be accomplished to mitigate the risk. A risk
action is a unit of work, and it is estimated in hours.
 Issue: Identifies unforeseen events that occur in a project.
 Milestone: Defines a significant point or event in the plan, where event is an
occurrence, or an outcome.

The scheduler for traditional plans schedules tasks sequentially. The plan schedule is
determined by the following information:
 Estimates of the work items
 Actual start or finish dates of the work items, determined by the state change of
the work item
 Start and end dates of the iteration associated with the plan
 Schedule constraints and dependencies of work items
 Project working days and hours
 Availability of resources who are assigned to work items
When to use traditional planning
Use the traditional planning process for a project in which work is done sequentially and
is driven by a schedule that is defined by schedule dependencies, constraints, resource
availability, and durations. Do not use the traditional planning process for projects that
are driven by agile practices.