Project Execution Plan Templates

Project execution plans (PEPs) provide a structure for successful project planning and execution. Like project status reports, PEPs show which components are on track or at risk and help you account for them prior to execution. 

You can modify the PEP template to suit your needs. Though PEP templates vary, most include the following sections: 

• Project Overview: Enter your project’s name, location, company, and contact information to ensure that the high-level project details accurately represent the project to all stakeholders.  
• Project Scope: Enter an overview of your project’s features and functions, including any details required to meet stakeholders’ requirements. 
• Project Goals: Enter your project’s performance, delivery timeline, resource, and performance goals.  
• Quality Specifications: Enter your project’s performance, functionality, consistency, and quality specifications. 
• Technical Specifications: Enter any technical details, performance, reliability specifications required for your project.
• Resource Allocation: Enter your project’s resource-specific details, including personnel, scheduling, and resource availability. 
• Project Schedule: Enter your project’s milestones, key activities, and deliverables, including projected start and end dates. 
• Communication Plan: Enter your project’s communication strategy information, including how project execution details will be communicated to key stakeholders, who should receive these communications, and how frequently you should send them. 

Additionally, PEPs often include the following project-execution components: 

• Budget: Enter your project’s fixed or variable costs. Budget-wise, is the project under, over, or on target? 
• Schedule: Enter your project’s estimated (and, eventually, actual) hours. Have you allocated the necessary resources to the project? Is the project on track for successful execution? 
• Deliverables: Enter your project’s individual deliverables and their completion percentage. 
• Status: Enter each project task’s status (e.g., not started, in progress, on hold, completed). 
• Task Name: Enter a sufficient name for each individual project task. 
• Task Description: Enter a clear description for each individual project task. 
• Task Owner: Assign an owner (the person responsible for completing the task) to each project task. 
• Priority: Enter each project task’s priority (e.g., high, medium, low). 

By filling out a project execution plan template’s sections before your project begins, you  ensure that you have an agreed-upon, single-source project execution plan to account for all components of your project’s execution and inevitable success.