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While I’m no longer a formal Project Manager, from time to time I still have the need to create a project Plan or to help someone else to organize a project plan.  Usually. I find that it is easier to get to a more holistic plan faster, if I have a pattern of essential tasks and milestone to work with.  So, I usually go to a template which I have assembled across time use as an accelerator and/or job aide.   The attached project plan templates are for a common data warehouse project pattern, but by no means is intended to be the end all of project plans; it is just a starter kick, sort of speak.

There are several reasons why projects plan patterns may vary, other than the experience and knowledge of project planner, among them are:

• The environment migration pattern in use
• The application stack of the of the environment
• The tools use to manage the project plan (MS Project, JIRA, OpenProj, etc.)
• The size and complexity of the project team

Here is project plan mockup around Infosphere Datastage, but should be adaptable to any other ETL application.

XML Version of the Plan

• https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjqBBfaz5WwjgcpQP7J73CGcUZPYJQ

OpenProj Version of the plan

• https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjqBBfaz5WwjgcpRQrDrSvijmeJjjQ