Chapter 4

Question 1

What is Project integration management?

Answer 1

-It includes all the process and activities you need to: identify, define, combine, unify, and co-ordinate
-It also includes; the characteristics of unification, consolidation, articulation, integrative actions, managing stakeholder expectations, meeting requirements

Question 2

What is a project charter?

Answer 2

-A document authorizing a project or phase, it identifies initial requirements that satisfy stakeholder’s needs and expectations
-It establishes a partnership between the requester or customer and the performer, and approved charters initiate projects

Question 3

What are the 6 steps in project integration management?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What are the Project Charter inputs?

Answer 4

1. Statement of work references
2. Business Case
3. Contract
4. Enterprise environmental factors
5. Organizational Process Assets

Question 5

What are the Project Charter Tools and Techniques?

Answer 5

-Involves expert judgement available from many sources such as; consultants and stakeholders

Question 6

What are the Project Charter outputs?

Answer 6

-Project charter is the final output– it documents the business needs, current understanding of the customer’s needs, and the new product, service or result that it is intended to satisfy such as; risks, budgets, schedules etc.

Question 7

What is the Project Management Plan?

Answer 7

-Documents the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate and coordinate all plans
-Defines how the project is executed, monitored/controlled and closed
-Plan is updated, controlled, and approved through the perform integration change control process

Question 8

When are project managers assigned with respect to the charter?

Answer 8

-Early on preferably while the charter is being developed and always before the start of planning

Question 9

What are the Project Management plan inputs?

Answer 9

1. The project charter
2. Enterprise environmental factors
3. Organizational process assets

Question 10

What are the Project Management plan tools and techniques?

Answer 10

-Using expert judgment to tailor the process to meet project needs, and determine resources, skill levels, project documents which may need a change, and the technical and management details needed in the plan.

Question 11

What are the Project Management Plan Outputs?

Answer 11

-The project management plan, which integrates and combines all management plans and baselines from the planning processes

Question 12

What is Direct and Manage Project Execution?

Answer 12

-Process of performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project’s objectives, it implements the planned methods and standards

Question 13

Direct and Manage Project Execution also requires implementation of approved changes covering:

Answer 13

-Corrective action
-Preventative action
-Defect repair

Question 14

What are the Direct and Manage Project Execution inputs?

Answer 14

1. Project management plan
2. Approved change requests
3. Enterprise environmental factors
4. Organizational Process assets

Question 15

What are the Direct and Manage Project Execution: Tools and Techniques?

Answer 15

1. Expert judgement
2. Project Management Information System

Question 16

What are the Direct and Manage Project Execution: Outputs?

Answer 16

1. Deliverables
2. Work performance information
3. Change requests
4. Project management plan updates
5. Project document updates

Question 17

What is Monitor and Control Project Work?

Answer 17

-The process of tracking, reviewing and regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan– it is mainly concerned with identifying new risks, analyzing existing risks and executing an appropriate risk response plan.

Question 18

What are the Monitor and Control Project Work inputs?

Answer 18

1. Project management plan
2. Performance reports
3. Enterprise environmental factors
4. Organizational process assets

Question 19

What are the Monitor and Control Project Work tools and techniques?

Answer 19

1. Expert judgement

Question 20

What are the Monitor and Control Project Work Outputs?

Answer 20

1. Change requests
2. Project management plan updates
3. Project document updates

Question 21

What is Perform Integrated Change Control?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What is Perform Integrated Change Control: Inputs?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What is Perform Integrated Change Control: tools and techniques?

Answer 23

1. Expert judgement
2. Change control meetings

Question 24

What is Perform Integrated Change Control: outputs?

Answer 24

1. Change request status updates
2. Project management plan updates
3. Project document updates

Question 25

What is the Close Project or Phase?

Answer 25

-Includes all the activities necessary for administrative closure of the project or phase, including step-by-step methodologies that address actions and activities necessary to; satisfy completion criteria, transfer project products/services/results to the next phase, collect records, audit the project success or failure, and gather lessons learned for future use

Question 26

What is the Close Project or Phase inputs?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

What is the Close Project or Phase tools and techniques?

Answer 27

1. Expert judgement

Question 28

What is the Close Project or Phase outputs?

Answer 28

1. Final product, service, or result transition
2. Organizational process assets updates