What are the outputs to Develop Project Management?

Project Management Plan;

Can be @ summary or detailed level and can be composed of one or more subsidiary plans.

What are the Tools n Techniques for

Develop Project Management Plan?

Expert judgement

Define Develop Project

Management Plan.

It's the process of documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plan.  And it defines how a project is executed, monitored, controlled and closed.

What are the inputs to

Develop Project Management Plans?

1. Project charter
2. Outputs from planning processes
3. Enterprise environmental factors; gov't/industry standards, PM info system, organizational structure
4. Organizational process assets - standard guidelines, work instructions, project management plan templates. 

What does Project Integration Management

process include?

It includes the process and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate the various process and project management activities within project management process groups.

What are the outputs to develop a project charter?

Project Charter

What does a project charter satisfy?

• Project purpose/justifications
• Measurable project objectivews 
• Name/authority level of sponsor
• High level requirements
• High level project description
• High level project risks
• Summary of mileston schedule
• Sumary budget
• Project approval requirements
• Assigned project manager - their responsiblity, authority level

What are the tools/techniques to develop

project charter?

What are the SOW references?

• Business need
• Project scope description
• Strategic plan - organization strategic goals

What are the inputs to

Develop a Project Charter?

Project statement of work (SOW)

Business case

Contract

Enterprise environmental factors

Organizational process assets

Define Develop a Project Charter

Formally initiates the project.  And it's a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and documenting initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholder needs/expectations

Name the process types to

Project Integration Management

1. Project charter
2. Project management plan
3. Direct/Manage project execution
4. Monitor/control project work
5. Perform integrated change control
6. Close project or phase

What does a project baseline include?

• Schedule baseline
• Cost performance baseline
• Scope baseline

What does a subsidiary plan include?

• Scope management plan
• Requirements management plan
• Schedle management plan
• Cost management plan
• Quality management plan
• Process improvement plan
• HR plan
• Communications mangement plan
• Risk mangement plan
• Procurement mangement plan

What are the processes

included in

Project Integration Management?

1. Develop project charter
2. Develop project management plan
3. Direct and manage project execution
4. Monitor and control project work
5. Perform integrated change control
6. Close project or phase

Define Direct and Manage Project Execution

It's the process of performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives.

Name a few of the many

Direct and Manage Project Execution

activities.

• Perform activities to accomplish project requirements
• Create project deliverables
• Staff, train and manage team
• Obtain, manage and use resources; materials, tools, equipment and facilities
• Implement the planned methods and standards
• Establish and manage project communication channels; external, internal
• Generate project data; cost, schedule, technical, quality progress, forecasting
• Issue change request
• Manage risks
• Manage sellers/suppliers
• collect/document lessons learned. 

Name three approved changes

that requires implementation/documentation

within

Direct and Manage Project Execution

1. Corrective action
2. Preventive action
3. Defect repair 

What are the inputs to

Direct and Manage Project Execution?

1. Project management plan
2. Approved change request
3. Enterprise environmental factors
4. Organizational process assets 

What are the Tools n Techniques to

Direct and Manage Project Execution?

1. Expert judgement
2. Project Management Information System - automated tool; i.e. scheduling software 

What are the outputs to

Direct and Manage Project Execution?

1. Deliverables
2. Work Performance Information; i.e. deliverable status, schedule progress, costs incurred
3. Change requests
4. Project Management Plan updates; i.e. any plan and project baseline
5. Project Document updates; i.e. project logs, risk register, stakeholder register 

Define Monitor and Control Work

It's the process of tracking, reviewing, and regulating the process to meet the objectives defined in the project management plan.

Define monitoring that occurs during the

Monitoring and Control Project Work.

Collecting, measuring, and distributing performance information and assessing measurements and trend to effect process improvements.

Define controlling that occurs during the

Monitoring and Control Project Work.

Includes determining corrective and preventive actions or re-planning and following up on action plan to determine if the actions taken resolve performance issues.

What are the inputs to

Monitor and Control Project Work

1. Project management plan
2. Performance reports; i.e. current status, accomplishments, scheduled activities, forecasts and issues
3. Enterprise Environmental factors
4. Organizational Process Assets

What are the Tools n Techniques to

Monitor and Control Project Work

Expert judgement

What are the outputs to

Monitor and Control Project Work

1. Change requests
2. Project Management Plan updates
3. Project Document updates 

Define Perform Integrated Change Control

Process of reviewing all change requests, approving changes and managing changes to the deliverable, organizational process assets, project documents and the project management plan.

What are some of the change management

activities within

Perform Integrated Change Control

• Influencing the factors that circumvent integrated change control so that only the approved changes are implemented
• Reviewing, analyzing and approving change requests, promptly
• Managing the approved changes
• Maintaining the integrity of baseline by releasing only approved changes
• Reviewing, approving or denying all recommended corrective/preventive actions
• Coordinating changes 
• Documenting the complete impact of change request 

What types of activities can approved changes require?

New or revised cost estimates, activity sequences, schedule date, resource requirements, and analysis of risk response alternatives

What are the inputs to

Perform Integrated Change Control

1. Project management plan
2. Work performance information
3. Change requests
4. Enterprise Environmental factors
5. Organizational process assets 

What are the Tools n Techniques to

Perform Integrated Change Control

• Expert judgement
• Change control meetings 

What are the outputs to

Perform Integrated Change Control

• Change request status updates
• Project management plan updates
• Project document updates 

Define Close Project or Phase

The process of finalizing all activities across all of the Project Management Process Groups to formally complete the project or phase.

What are the inputs to

Close Project or Phase?

1. Project management plan
2. Accepted deliverables
3. Organizational process assets 

What are the Tools n Techniques to

Close Project or Phase?

Expert judgement

What are the outputs to

Close Project or Phase?

1. Final product, service or result transition
2. Organizational Process Assets updates -
• Project files
• Project or phase closure documents
• Historical information; lessons learned doc.