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Project
Management is the application
of knowledge, skills, tools and
techniques to project activities to meet project requirements. Project
management is accomplished through the application and integration of
the project management processes of initiating, planning, executing,
monitoring and controlling and closing.
Project
Management Knowledge Areas
organizes 44 project management
processes into 9 project Knowledge Areas:
- Project
Integration Management
- Project
Scope Management
- Project
Time
Management
- Project
Cost
Management
- Project
Quality Management
- Project
Human Resources Management
- Project
Communications Management
- Project
Risk
Management
- Project
Procurement Management
Process
Groups:
- Initiating
- Planning
- Executing
- Monitoring
and Controlling
- Closing
Project
Integration Management:
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. Includes the following:
-
Develop Project Charter
-
Develop
Preliminary Project Scope Statement
-
Develop
Project
Management Plan
-
Direct
&
Manage Project Execution
-
Monitor
&
Control Project Work
-
Integrated
Change Control
-
Close
Project
Project
Scope Management: primarily
concerned with defining and
controlling what is and is not included in the project. Includes the
following processes:
-
Scope Planning
-
Scope
Definition
-
Create WBS
-
Scope
Verification - formalizing acceptance of the completed project
deliverables)
-
Scope
Control (controlling changes to the project scope)
Project
Time Management: Includes the
following processes to accomplish
timely completion of the project:
-
Activity Definition
-
Activity
Sequencing
-
Activity
Resource Estimating
-
Activity
Duration Estimating
-
Schedule
Development
-
Schedule
Control
Project
Cost Management: includes the
processes involved in planning,
estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs so that the project can be
completed within the approved budget.
-
Cost Estimating -
developing an approximation of the costs of the resources needed to
complete project activities
-
Cost
Budgeting -
aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work
packages to establish a cost baseline
-
Cost
Control -
influencing the factors that create cost variances and controlling
changes to the project budget
Project
Quality Management: include
all the activities of the performing
organization that determine quality policies, objectives, and
responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which
it was undertaken. Processes include the following:
Quality Planning - identifying which quality standards are relevant to
the project and determining how to satisfy them
Perform Quality Assurance - applying the planned, systematic quality
activities to ensure that the project employs all processes needed to
meet requirements.
Perform Quality Control - monitoring specific project results to
determine whether they comply with relevant quality standards and
identifying ways to eliminate causes of unsatisfactory performance
Project
Human Resources Management:
employs the processes required to
ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution,
storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information.
Processes include the following:
-
Communications Planning -
determining the information and communications needs of the project
stakeholders.
-
Information
Distribution - making needed information available to project
stakeholders in timely manner
-
Performance
Reporting
-
Manage
Stakeholders
Project
Communications Management:
include the processes that organize
and manage the project team.
Project
Risk Management: includes the
processes concerned with
conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis,
responses, and monitoring and control on a project. The objectives of
Project Risk Management are to increase the probability and impact of
events adverse to the project.
Project Risk Management processes include the following:
-
Risk Management Planning -
deciding how to approach, plan and execute the risk management
activities
-
Risk
Identification - determining which risk might affect the project and
documenting their characteristics
-
Qualitative Risk
Analysis - prioritizing risks for subsequent further analysis or action
by assessing and combining their probability of occurence and impact.
-
Quantitative
Risk Analysis - numerically analyzing the affect on overall project
objectives of identified risk
-
Risk
Response
Planning - developing options and actions to enhance opportunities, and
reduce threats to project objectives
-
Risk
Monitoring
and Control - tracking identified risk, monitoring residual risk,
identifying new risk, executing risk response plan, and evaluating
their effectiveness throughout the project life cycle.
Triple
Constraint: Scope, Time and
Cost |