Scheduling

This section of the plan will lay out the schedule set out for expected completion of the individual milestones necessary for the timely completion of the overall project. It will provide expected completion dates for each major stage delegated to its respective organizational component or business unit or team. In principle, this is intended to ensure that tasks performed by different teams are completed in time for the incorporation of different tasks, especially where the individual tasks assigned to respective teams must be completed in order to test the other tasks assigned to different teams at that stage of the project. If it is necessary to revise any aspect of the timeline outlined in advance, periodic review along specific timeline stages will allow project managers to mitigate the long-term delays associated with unexpected delays of any individual elements.

Ideally, this section will also provide alternate routes leading to the most efficacious possible coordinated multi-department progress in the event that individual departments...

In essence, it provides the routes to the least possible delay of the overall project capable of being achieved in relation to anticipated scheduling delays of individual departmental tasks.
Periodic Progress Reviews

This section of the plan will outline two major aspects of project review: (1) departmental progress reviews of tasks assigned to working groups within each individual department, and (2) overall progress review wherein the department supervisors and managers responsible for coordinating with their counterparts in other departments will jointly evaluate their degree of adherence to the overall project timeline previously established. It is anticipated that supervision and progress reviews within each department will reflect the established policies, practices, and procedures generally relied upon by those departments, with respect to whether they are more formal or informal in their nature. Conversely, it is anticipated that the inter-department progress reports and reviews will be conducted more formally.