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Putting together a business plan resembles any project that involves teamwork, from building a house to running a relay race. The clearer the ground rules, the smoother the process — and the happier your team. Make sure that your ground rules do three things:

 Identify key steps. Typically, the process of writing a business plan includes five distinct steps: research, first draft, review, revised draft, and final review. You can specify as many or as few of these steps as you think you need. Just make sure that you spell them out up front.

 Clearly assign duties. Everyone involved needs to know exactly what you expect from them. You can use the key steps you identify to create separate sets of tasks, and then you assign each task to members of your team (see the next section).

 Establish a schedule. Although writing up a business plan is a big job, the process doesn’t need to be a long and drawn-out affair. A business plan has to be timely, responding to the current business environment — not the way it looked six months ago. After you complete the preliminary research, the rest of the steps are fairly straightforward. To keep your project on track, set specific due dates for each component of the plan and each step in the process. Assign the members of your team as much time as they reasonably need, but no more, and be fair but forceful in having them meet deadlines.