This chapter presents the detailed planning techniques that are often downplayed as mere scheduling techniques. It also presents a quick recap of the steps involved in planning a project. The first two actions prepare the groundwork for planning and so can be considered preplanning activities. The remaining five steps develop the detailed plan. The planning steps include: building a work breakdown structure, identifying task relationships, estimating work packages, calculating initial schedule, and assigning and leveling resources. Calculating a schedule may be one of the most well known, but unappreciated, of all project management techniques. The steps of planning covered in the chapter provide an analytical thought process as well as an approach to organizing and communicating the details of how one can do the work. Small projects benefit from the analytical thought process even if they don not need all of the artifacts of planning.