Project Management Processes Flashcards
Develop Project Charter
Knowledge Area: Integration Management
Process Group: Initiating
- Written document officially authorizing a new project or phase.
- Documents initial, high-level requirements/scope and business need
- Identifies Project Manager and confers power/authority.
Develop Project Management Plan
Knowledge Area: Integration Management
Process Group: Planning
The PM Plan defines how the project will be executed, monitored, controlled, and closed.
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Comprehensive collection of all subsidiary plans
Direct and Manage Project Execution
Knowledge Area: Integration Management
Process Group: Executing
Performing the work identified in the project management plan.
Monitor and Control Project Work
Knowledge Area: Integration Management
Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling
- Involves tracking, reviewing, and regulating progress toward meeting project objectives.
- Monitoring provides insight into the health of project and identifies issues that may require attention.
- Controlling determines appropriate preventative or corrective action and identifies when replanning may be necessary.
Perform Integrated Change Control
Knowledge Area: Integration Management
Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling
- Integrated change control is performed constantly throughout the entire project life cycle to effectively manage the change process.
- The integrated change control process includes reviewing all change requests as well as approving and managing changes to any of the following: deliverables, organizational processes, project documents, and the project management plan.
Close Project or Phase
Knowledge Area: Integration Management
Process Group: Closing
- Officially closes a project or phase by finalizing all activities across all process groups.
- Ensures that all work is complete and project objectives have been met.
- Formalizes acceptance of deliverables (sign-off)
- Documents circumstances if the project is terminated before completion.
- Administrative closure.
Collect Requirements
Knowledge Area: Scope Management
Process Group: Planning
Involves defining and managing customer, sponsor, and other stakeholders’ expectations. These requirements must be captured in sufficient detail to be measured during project execution.
Define Scope
Knowledge Area: Scope Management
Process Group: Planning
Produces a written, detailed scope statement that is crucial to project success.
• This statement represents an agreement between the project team and the customer.
• The project team and appropriate stakeholders conduct a needs assessment and use it as the basis to develop written project requirements.
• Assumptions, constraints, and risks are identified and validated as necessary.
Create WBS
Knowledge Area: Scope Management
Process Group: Planning
The WBS is a deliverable-oriented decomposition of the work to be accomplished.
Verify Scope
Knowledge Area: Scope Management
Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling
The process of obtaining formal acceptance of the project scope by stakeholders.
Control Scope
Knowledge Area: Scope Management
Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling
This process monitors the status of project and product scope and also manages any changes to the scope baseline.
Define Activities
Knowledge Area: Time Management
Process Group: Planning
Involves identifying and documenting the specific activities that must be performed to be performed to produce the deliverables identified by the WBS.
Sequence Activities
Knowledge Area: Time Management
Process Group: Planning
Activity sequencing involves identifying and documenting interactivity dependencies (also called logical relationships). Except for first and last, all activities must have a predecessor and a successor.
Estimate Activity Resources
Knowledge Area: Time Management
Process Group: Planning
Determining what resources (people, equipment, material, and facilities) will be needed, along with the associated quantities and time frames.
Estimate Activity Durations
Knowledge Area: Time Management
Process Group: Planning
Assessing the number of work periods needed to complete an activity.
Develop Schedule
Knowledge Area: Time Management
Process Group: Planning
Builds upon the four previous processes (activity list, sequencing, resources estimates, and duration estimates) to establish the project schedule.