Chapter 3 Adapting The Project Management Progress Flashcards
Closing
The fifth of five project management progress groups. It contains the processes responsible for closing a project, a project phase, or the procurement relationships.
Executing
The project management process group that carries out the project management plan to create the project deliverables.
Initiating
The start and authorization of the project; the project management is identified, the project is authorized through the charter, and the stakeholders are identified.
Knowledge areas
There are nine knowledge areas within project management ; each knowledge area is a specific portion of the project, and all nine project management knowledge areas are interrelated.
Monitoring and controlling
The project management process group responsible for ensuring that the project execution is completed according to the project management plan and expectations.
Planning
The iterative process group where the intention of the project is determined and documented in the project management plan.
Project charter
The first project document that authorizes the project, identifies the project manager, and creates the high-level objectives for the project.
Project communications management
A project management knowledge area that carries out the directions of the project’s communication management plan.
Project cost management
A project management knowledge area that defines cost estimating, cost budgeting, and cost control.
Project human resource management
A project management knowledge area that creates the human resource plan, acquires the project team, develops the project team, and manages the project team.
Project integration management
A project management knowledge area that coordinates all of the effort of the project’s initiation, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
Project procurement management
A project management knowledge area that plans what needs to be procured, procures the project needs, administers the procurement process, and closes procurement according to the project terms and the procurement management plan.
Project quality management
A project management knowledge area that coordinates the quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control of the project.
Project scope management
A project management knowledge area responsible for collecting project requirements, defining the project scope.
Project time management
A project management area that defines the project activities, sequences project work,mestimates resources and activity durations, and develops the project schedule. This knowledge area is also responsible for control of the project schedule.
