November 13th, 2008 chris
The following are the 44 processes of Project Management:
- Develop Project Charter
- Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement
- Develop Project Management Plan
- Scope Planning
- Scope Definition
- Create WBS
- Activity Definition
- Activity Sequencing
- Activity Resource Estimating
- Activity Duration Estimating
- Schedule Development
- Cost Estimating
- Cost Budgeting
- Quality Planning
- Human Resource Planning
- Communication Planning
- Risk Management Planning
- Risk Identification
- Qualitative Risk Analysis
- Quantitive Risk Analysis
- Risk Response Planning
- Plan Purchases and Acquisitions
- Plan Contracting
- Direct and Manage Project Execution
- Perform Quality Assurance
- Acquire Project Team
- Develop Project Team
- Information Distribution
- Request Seller Responses
- Select Sellers
- Monitor and Control Project Work
- Integrated Change Control
- Scope Verification
- Scope Control
- Schedule Control
- Cost Control
- Perform Quality Control
- Manage Project Team
- Performance Reporting
- Manage Stakeholders
- Risk Monitoring and Control
- Contract Administration
- Close Project
- Contract Closure
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November 13th, 2008 chris
Project Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully. Project scope management is primarily concerned with defining and controlling what is and is not included in the project.
The scope project management processes include:
- Scope Planning - creating a project scope management plan that documents how the project scope will be defined, verified, controlled, and how the work breakdown structure (WBS) will be created and defined.
- Scope Definition - developing a detailed project scope statement as the basis for future project decisions.
- Create WBS - subdividing the major project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components.
- Scope Verification - formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables.
- Scope Control - controlling changes to the project scope.
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November 13th, 2008 chris
The Project Integration Management Knowledge Area includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the Project Management Process Groups. In the project management context, integration includes characteristics of unification, consolidation, articulation, and integrative actions that are crucial to project completion, successfully meeting customer and other stakeholder requirements, and managing expectations. Integration, in the context of managing a project, is making choices about where to concentrate resources and effort on any given day, anticipating potential issues, dealing with these issues before they become critical, and coordinating work for the overall project good. The integration effort also involves making trade-offs among competing objectives and alternatives. The project management processes are usually presented as discrete components with well-defined interfaces while, in practice, they overlap and interact in ways that cannot be completely detailed in theory.
The need for integration in project management becomes evident in situations where individual processes interact. For example, a cost estimate neeed for a contingency plan involves integration of the planning processes described in greater detail in the Project Cost Management processes, Project Time Management processes, and Project Risk Management processes. When additional risks associated with various staffing alternatives are identified, then one or more of those processes must be revisited. The project deliverables also need to be integrated with ongoing operations of either the performing organization or the customer’s organization, or with the long-term strategic planning that takes future problems and opportunities into consideration.
Integration is primarily concerned with effectively integrating the processes among the Project Management Process Groups that are required to accomplish project objectives within an organization’s defined procedures.
The integrative project management processes include:
- Develop Project Charter - developing the project charter that formally authorizes a project or a project phase.
- Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement - developing the preliminary project scope statement that provides a high-level scope narrative.
- Develop Project Management Plan - documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans into a project management plan.
- Direct and Manage Project Execution - executing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project’s requirements defined in the project scope statement.
- Monitor and Control Project Work - monitoring and controlling the processes used to initiate, plan, execute, and close a project to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan.
- Integrated Change Control - reviewing all change requests, approving changes, and controlling changes to the deliverables and organizational process assets.
- Close Project - finalizing all activities across all of the Project MAnagement Groups to formally close the project or a project phase.
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November 13th, 2008 chris
In project management, the process groups help you organize the processes by the kind of work you do. The knowledge areas help you organize by the subject matter you’re dealing with.
The nine knowledge areas of project management are:
- Project Integration Management
- Project Scope Management
- Project Time Management
- Project Cost Management
- Project Quality Management
- Project Human Resource Management
- Project Communications Management
- Project Risk Management
- Project Procurement Management
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