Knowledge Areas




Project Integration Management

Project Integration Management includes the processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are propoerly coordinated. It invloves making tradeoffs among competing objectives and alternatives to meet or exceed stakeholders needs and expectations. While all project management processes are integrative to some extent, the processes described in Project Integration Management are primarily integrative.

• Project Plan Development
• Project Plan Execution
• Integrated Change Control

Project Scope Management

Project Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and the only work required, to complete the project successfully. It is primarily concerned with defining and controlling what is or what is not included in the project.

• Initiation
• Scope Planning
• Scope Definition
• Scope Verification
• Scope Change Control

Project Time Management

Project Time Management includes the processes required to ensure timely completion of the project

• Activity Definition
• Activity Sequencing
• Activity Duration Estimating
• Schedule Development
• Schedule Control

Project Cost Management

Project Cost Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget

• Resource Planning
• Cost Estimating
• Cost Budgeting
• Cost Control

Project Quality Management

Project Quality Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken. It includes all activities of the overall management function that determine the quality policy, objectives, and responsibilities and implements them by means such as quality planning, quality assurance, quality control, and quality improvement, within the quality system.

• Quality Planning
• Quality Assurance
• Quality Control

Project Human Resource Management

Project Human Resource Management includes the processes required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project. It includes all the project stakehoders - sponsors, customers, partners, individual contributors, and others.

• Organizational Planning
• Staff Acquisition
• Team Development

Project Communications Management

Project Communications Management includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project infomation. It provides the critical links among people, ideas, and information that are necessary for success. Everyone involved in the project must be prepared to send and receive communications, and must understand how the communications in which they are involved as individuals affect the project as a whole.

• Communications Planning
• Information Distribution
• Performance Reporting
• Administrative Closure

Project Risk Management

Project Risk Management is the systematic process of indetifying, analyzing, and reporting the project risk. It includes maximizing the probability and consequences of positive events and minimizing the probability and consequences of advere events to project objectives.

• Risk Management Planning
• Risk Identification
• Qualitative Risk Analysis
• Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Risk Response Planning
• Risk Monitoring and Control

Project Procurement Management

Project Procurement Management includes the processes required to acquire goods and services, to attain project scope, from outside the performing organization.

• Procurement Planning
• Solicitation Planning
• Solicitation
• Source Selection
• Contract Administration
• Contract Closeout