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PM Processes
47 Project Management Process Definintions, Knowledge Areas and Groups
Term | Definition |
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4.1 Develop a Charter | Knowledge Area: Integration Management Def: Developing a document that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities. |
4.2 Develop Project Management Plan | Knowledge Area: Integration Management Def: Defining, preparing, and coordinating all subsidieary plans and integrating them into a comprehensive project management plan. Baselines and subsidiary plans may be included |
4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work | Knowledge Area: Integration Management Def: Leading and performing the work identified in the plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the project objectives. |
4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work | Knowledge Area: Integration Management Def: Tracking, reviewing and reporting progress against objectives |
4.5 Perform Integrated Change Control | Knowledge Area: Integration Management Def: Reviewing all change requests; approving changes and managing changes to deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents and the plan; communicating disposition |
4.6 Close Project or Phase | Knowledge Area:Integration Management Def: The process of finalizing activities across all groups to formally complete the phase or project. |
5.1Plan Scope Management | Knowledge Area: Scope Management Def: Creating a scope management plan that documents how the project scope will be defined, validated and controlled |
5.2 Collect Requirements | Knowledge Area: Scope Management Def: Determining, documenting and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives |
5.3 Define Scope | Knowledge Area: Scope Management Def: Developing a detailed description of the project and product |
5.4 Create WBS | Knowledge Area: Scope Management Def: Subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components |
5.5 Validate Scope | Knowledge Area: Scope Management Def: Formalizing acceptance of the completed deliverables |
5.6 Control Scope | Knowledge Area: Scope Management Def: Monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline |
6.1 Plan Schedule Management | Knowledge Area: Time Management Def: Establishing policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the schedule |
6.2 Define Activities | Knowledge Area: Time Management Def: Identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce deliverables |
6.3 Sequence Activities | Knowledge Area: Time Management Def: Identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities |
6.4 Estimate Activity Resources | Knowledge Area: Time Management Def: Estimating the type and quantities of material, HR, equipment, or supplies required for each activity |
6.5 Estimate Activity Duration | Knowledge Area: Time Management Def: Estimating the number of work periods to complet individual activities with estimated resources |
6.6 Develop Schedule | Knowledge Area: Time Management Def: Analyzing activity sequences, duration, resource requirements and constraints to create a schedule model |
6.7 Control Schedule | Knowledge Area: Time Management Def: Monitoring the status of project activities to update progress and manage changes to schedule baseline to achieve plan |
7.1 Plan Cost Management | Knowledge Area: Cost Management Def: Establishes the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, managing, expending and controlling project costs |
7.2 Estimate Costs | Knowledge Area: Cost Management Def: Developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities |
7.3 Determine Budget | Knowledge Area: Cost Management Def: Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline |
7.4 Control Costs | Knowledge Area: Cost Management Def: Monitoring the status of the project to update the project costs and managing changes to the cost baseline |
8.1 Plan Quality Management | Knowledge Area: Quality Management Def: Identifying quality requirements and standards for project and deliverables; documenting how to demonstrate quality compliance requirements |
8.2 Perform Quality Assurance | Knowledge Area: Quality Management Def: Auditing the quality requirements and results from QC measurements to ensure that standards and operational definitions are used |
8.3 Control Quality | Knowledge Area: Quality Management Def: Monitoring and recording results of executing quality activities to assess performance and recommend changes |
9.1 Plan HR Management | Knowledge Area: HR Management Def: Identifying and documenting roles, responsibili |
9.2 Acquire Project Team | Knowledge Area: HR Management Def: Confirming HR availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities |
9.3 Develop Project Team | Knowledge Area: HR Management Def: Improving competencies, team member interaction and oveall team environment to enhance project performance |
9.4 Manage Project Team | Knowledge Area: HR Management Def: Tracking team member performance, providing feedback, resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance |
10.1 Plan Communications Management | Knowledge Area: Communications Management Def: Developing an appropriate approach and plan for commo based on stakeholder info & needs requirements and avail assets |
10.2 Manage Communications | Knowledge Area: Communications Management Def: Creating, collecting, distributing, storing, retrieving and ultimate disposition IAW comm mgmt plan |
10.3 Control Communications | Knowledge Area: Communications Management Def: Monitoring and controlling commo throughout the project life cycle to ensure the stakeholder info needs are met |
11.1Plan Risk Management | Knowledge Area: Risk Management Def: Defining how to conduct Risk Mgmt activities for project |
11.2 Identify Risks | Knowledge Area: Risk Management Def: Determining which risks affect the project and documenting their characteristics |
11.3 Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis | Knowledge Area: Risk Management Def: Numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives |
11.4 Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis | Knowledge Area: Risk Management Def: numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives |
11.5 Plan Risk Responses | Knowledge Area: Risk Management Def: Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and reduce threats to project objectives |
11.6 Control Risks | Knowledge Area: Risk Management Def: Implementing risk response plans, tracking identified risks, monitoring residual risks, ID new risks & eval risk process effectiveness throughout project |
12.1 Plan Procurement Management | Knowledge Area: Procurement Management Def: documenting project procurement decisions, specifying the approach and id potential sellers |
12.2 Conduct Procurement | Knowledge Area: Procurement Management Def: Obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, awarding a contract |
12.3 Control Procurement | Knowledge Area: Procurement Management Def: managing procurement relationships, monitoring contract performance and making changes and corrections as appropriate |
12.4 Close Procurements | Knowledge Area: Procurement Management Def: Completing each project procurement |
13.1 Identify Stakeholders | Knowledge Area: Stakeholder Management Def: ID the people, groups, orgs, that could impact or be impacted by project;analyze and document relevant info regarding their involvement, influence,and their impact on success |
13.2 Plan Stakeholder Management | Knowledge Area: Stakeholder Management Def: Developing management strategies to engage stakeholders throughout project lifecycle based on analysis of their need, interest, impact on project success |
13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement | Knowledge Area: Stakeholder Management Def: Communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their need/expectations address issues as they occur foster stake holder engagement in activities throughout project life cycle |
13.4 Control Stakholder Engagement | Knowledge Area: Stakeholder Management Def: Monitoring project stakeholder relationships and adjusting strategies and plans for engaging stakeholders |