Sample Project Plan

The overview plan for the study is as shown in the table below.

Table 1. Sample project plan overview
Phase	Time	Resources	Risks
Business understanding	1 week	All analysts	Economic change
Data understanding	3 weeks	All analysts	Data problems, technology problems
Data preparation	5 weeks	Data mining consultant, some database analyst time	Data problems, technology problems
Modeling	2 weeks	Data mining consultant, some database analyst time	Technology problems, inability to find adequate model
Evaluation	1 week	All analysts	Economic change, inability to implement results
Deployment	1 week	Data mining consultant, some database analyst time	Economic change, inability to implement results