Refer to the ME 491 web page on project planning.
A good, and fairly concise reference on project planning is, Fundamentals of Project Management, 5th ed. Joseph Heagney, 2016, American Management Association. ISBN 978-0-8144+3738-0
A free alternative is the open textbook by Merrie Barron and Andrew Barron, Project Management. OpenStax CNX. https://cnx.org/contents/5e9177d7-9998-43d0-9b98-91a369c6a371@10.1