For a professional work plan, you may need some overview and background. Your supervisor or manager needs you to provide this information so that they can quickly understand your work plan. Academic work plans often do not need to write an overview and background.

The overview should be as concise and engaging as possible. Use it to remind your boss why you set up this work plan. Its scope should be the specific project you are working on during this time.

In the background section you should emphasize why you wrote this work plan. For example, retell the details or statistics of your recent job, find out the problems that should be solved, or write down the good comments you received in the previous job.