Chapter 4 - Integration

Question 1

Organizational process assets

Answer 1

Plans,processes,policies,procedures,and knowledge based specific to and used by the performing organization. They include any artifact,practice,or knowledge from any or all of the organization involved in the project that can be used to perform or govern the project.

Question 2

Integration processes

Answer 2

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.

Initiating

4.1 Develop Project Charter 
Names the project manager & sponsor
Explains how the project supports the
organizational strategy
Explains the business need & why the
need exists
Defines any constraints and
assumptions that exist (this includes
any deadlines, budget limitations,
resource limitations, any known risks,
and scope must haves).
Defines the project success criteria (it
is always recommended that success
criteria be quantitative in nature as
subjective success criteria usually leads
to failure.

Planning

4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
The Project Management Plan is a key project
document that is a collection of the outputs of
the planning processes of the Planning Process
Group.
Describes which project management processes
will be used.
Describes how the project is executed,
monitored and controlled, and closed.
Updated throughout the project.

Executing

4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
Project Manager, with project team, directs
performance and manages interfaces with the
rest of the organization

4.4 Manage Project Knowledge

Monitoring & Controlling

4.5 Monitor and Control Project Work
Monitor processes – collect, measure,
disseminate, assess
Control via corrective actions
Compare actual work to plans/baselines
Analyze, track, forecast
Monitor implemented changes

4.6 Perform Integrated Change Control
Performed from the very beginning to the very end
Identify that a change has occurred
Influence factors that circumvent the integrated
change control process
Review, approve (or reject), monitor change
requests
Maintain integrity of the baselines
Review and approve all recommended corrective
and preventive actions
Assess impact of proposed
changes

Closing

4.7 Close Project or Phase

Question 3

Project Statement of Work

Answer 3

A narrative description of products or services to be supplied by the project

Question 4

Business Documents

Answer 4

Sponsor is responsible for these documents:

Project Business Case -
Project benefits management plan

Question 5

Project business case

Answer 5

a document that will have the feasibility study to prove the validity of the benefits laid out in the benefits management plan. It will include business needs, strategies, goals, objectives, gap analysis, success criteria.

Question 6

Project benefits management plan

Answer 6

this document is all about benefits.

Question 7

Project Selection Methods

Answer 7

BCR
Economic Value Add (EVA)
PV and NPV
IRR
ROI
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)
CBR (smaller better)
Payback period (smaller better)
Opportunity cost - the cost of a lost opportunity, missing the benefit of the project not selected. (smaller better)

Question 8

Common Inputs

Answer 8

Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEF)
Organizational Process Assets (OPA)
The project management plan
work performance data
Expert judgement
Meetings
change requests

Question 9

Enterprise Environmental Factors

Answer 9

Anything that affects your project which is not under the control of project team. Examples include the culture, the organization, the PM’s power, risk tolerance, and the market.

Question 10

Organizational process assets

Answer 10

Anything that helps you which is specific to your organization. Examples include previous plans, documents, analytical data, policies, procedures, and corporate knowledge base.

Question 11

Work performance data

Answer 11

the raw observations and measurements identified during activities performed to carry out the project work.

Question 12

Meetings

Answer 12

discussing and addressing pertinent topics of the project. It can be three types:

1. information exchange
2. brainstoming, option evaluation, design
3. decision making

Question 13

change requests

Answer 13

1. corrective actions: realigning the project work with project management plan
2. Preventive actions: making sure that future project work is in alignment with the project management plan
3. Defect repairs: correcting the non conforming product.
4. Updates:
   Updates (all categories): from planning, excuting, and M&C:
   a. Organizational process assets updates
   b. Project management plan updates
   c. Project document updates