SUPPORTING MANAGEMENT PLANS

Supporting management plans are added to a project as appropriate depending on the project's size and complexity. Larger and more complex projects may require adding one of the following supporting plans to the project management plan at project initiation:

• Quality management plan;
• Risk management plan;
• Contract management plan.

The quality management plan describes how the project will comply with the client's quality policy in terms of project procedures for quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC), and continuous process improvement. QA is the planned processes the project will follow to make certain that the quality policy is met through. QA audits to examine if the project activities are in compliance with project procedures, and process analysis to examine the effectiveness of project activities, learn from experience and problems encountered and thereby improve the process. QC is monitoring of the specific project results to determine whether they meet with predetermined quality standards and metrics. Continuous process improvement is the iterative application of  process  analysis over the length of the project and from project to project. Each consultant and construction contractor performing work on the project must have a QA plan that is acceptable to the client, so that the client can assess that the contractor's quality standards meet the client's quality management plan.

The risk management plan describes how the project is organized and the procedures used to manage the project risks, addressing in the plan:

• roles and responsibilities of project staff in risk management;
• identification of project risks;
• categorization of risks in terms of probability of occurrence and impact on project scope, cost, schedule, quality;
• risk handling, should the risk event occur, through either: 

Assumption-accepting the consequences of the risk;

Avoidance-changing the project deliverable design or work methods that lead to the risk;

Control-developing measures to reduce the risk's probability of occurrence, continually re-evaluating the risk, and having in place contingency plans to adopt that mitigate the impacts of the risk;

Transfer-sharing or transferring the consequences of the risk with others, for example, through insurance or warranty provisions.

The contract management plan defines what goods and services are to be acquired for the project and how they will be purchased or contracted, how project purchase orders and contracts will be administered, and what type of contracts will be used.