Many IT shops often manage dozens and hundreds of active projects. This project-planning work tends to be distributed well beyond a central project management office. There are only so many project managers in the world, and there are often too many project plans to create and manage. To help both our project managers and those in IT (or elsewhere) who operate as project managers without the deeper training project managers often have, we have drafted a rubric that make clear what we are looking for in a project and a project plan.