Integration Flashcards
What is the purpose of project integration?
Integration means bringing together various factors to form a whole. This process allows you to combine work from all knowledge areas and ensure that resources, deadlines, and the project life cycle are aligned.
What is the role of the project manager during project integration management?
Ensuring due dates of project deliverables, project life cycle and benefits, realization plan or aligned
Providing a project management plan
Ensuring the creation and the use of appropriate knowledge
Managing project performance and changes
Making decisions
Collecting, analyzing and communicating information
Measuring and monitoring progress
Managing transitions
Completing project work
Where are high level strategic and operational assumptions and constraints normally identified?
The business case before the project is initiated and will flow into the project charter.
What is the develop project charter process?
Develop project charter is the process of developing a document that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
What is an assumption?
An assumption is a factor in the planning process that is considered to be true, real or certain without proof or demonstration.
What does a project charter include?
Project purpose
Measurable objectives
High level requirements
Assigned resources
Information that will be a key input to the other processes
Which project assets are considered appropriate inputs for the process: develop project charter?
Organizational process assets OPAs
Enterprise environmental factors EEFs
Business documents
Agreements
Which project assets are considered appropriate outputs to be an end result for the process: develop project charter?
Project charter
Assumption log
Which tools and techniques are considered appropriate for the process develop project charter?
Data gathering
Expert judgment
Interpersonal and team skills
Meetings
What are the subsidiary management plans?
Subsidiary management plans include: Scope management plan
Requirements management plan
Schedule management plum
Cost management plum
Quality management plan
Resource management plan
Communications management plan
Risk management plan
Procurement management plan
Stakeholder engagement plan
What is the configuration management plan?
The configuration management planet describes the configurable items of the project and identifies the items that will be recorded and updated so that the product of their project remains consistent and operable.
What is the developed project management plan?
The developed project management plan process defines, prepares and coordinates all plan components and consolidates them onto a single integrated plan
It is the basis of all project work detailing how the project will be executed, monitored and controlled and closed.
Which process group is the developed project management plan process part of?
The developed project management plan process is part of the planning process group and happens at a time in the life cycle when you establish the scope of the project, refine objectives and define how to achieve objectives.
What are the inputs for the developed project management plan?
Enterprise environmental factor
Organizational process assets
Project charter
Outputs from other processes
What is the purpose of direct and manage project work?
This process ensures the team is carrying out the plunder project activities to complete deliverables and that approved changes are made.
Resources are assigned to the work and their time and work is managed.
This process provides overall management for project success.
What are the appropriate inputs for the direct and manage project work process?
Project documents
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
Project management plan
Approved change requests
What are the outputs of the direct and manage project work process?
Project document updates
Deliverables
Project management plan of dates
Issue log
Change requests
OPA’s update
Work performance data
What is explicit knowledge?
Explicit knowledge can be expressed in words, pictures or numbers and can be stored in media such as textbooks or web pages.
What is tacit knowledge?
Tusset knowledge consists of a person’s beliefs or insights and is harder to express. This knowledge is intuitive and rooted in experience or practice.
What are the inputs to the manage project knowledge process?
Project documents
Enterprise environmental factors
Project management plan
Organizational process assets
Deliverables
What are the outputs of the manage project knowledge process?
Organizational process assets updates
Lessons learned register
Project management plan updates
What are the tools and techniques for the manage project knowledge process?
Expert judgment
Information management
Knowledge management
Intrapersonal and team skills
What is the key benefit of managing project knowledge?
The key benefits of the manage project knowledge process are that prior organizational knowledge is leveraged to produce or improve the project outcomes, and knowledge created by the project is available to support organizational operations and future projects or phases.
What does the lessons learned to register include?
The lessons learned register includes the impact recommendations and proposed actions associated with the situation. Thereafter, it is used as an input and updated as an output in many processes through the project. The persons or teams involved in the work are also involved in capturing the lessons learned.
What are the inputs for monitor and control project work process?
Project documents
Project management plan
Work performance information
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process
Agreements
What are the outputs of the monitor and control project work process?
Work performance reports
Project management plan updates
Project documents updates
Change requests
What other tools and techniques for the monitor and control project work process?
Decision making
Dates for analysis
Expert judgment
Meetings
What types of data analysis are used in the monitor and control project work process?
Alternatives analysis
Cost benefit analysis
And value analysis
Root cause analysis
Trend analysis
Variants analysis
Assumption logs and issue logs are inputs to which project integration management process?
Monitor and control project work process
What process involves tracking, reviewing and reporting project process against the defined performance objectives in the project management plan?
Monitor and control project work process
Updates to project documents such as schedule and cost forecasts work performance reports and the issue log are outputs of what process?
Monitoring control project work process
What change request is an intentional activity that ensures that the future performance of project work aligns with the project management plan?
Preventative action
What tools and techniques are used in the perform integrated change control process?
Expert judgment
Change control tools
Data analysis
Decision making
Meetings
What is the name of a formerly chartered group responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving deferring, or rejecting changes to the project, and for recording and communicating such decisions?
Change control board (CCB)
Which process group is the perform integrated change control process part of?
The perform integrated change control process is part of the monitoring and controlling process group and it’s the time in the life cycle required to track, review and regulate the progress and performance of the project; identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate the corresponding changes.
What are the inputs to perform integrated change control process?
Change requests
What performance reports
Project management plan
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
Project documents
What are the outputs of the perform integrated change control process?
Approved change requests
Project management plan updates
Project documents updates
Failure to properly close a project could result in:
Moving on too quickly
Not recognizing the value of the project and the contributions of team members
Letting a project linger until it ultimately fails
What should the final report for the closed project or phase process group include?
Scope objectives
Quality objectives
Cost objectives
Schedule objectives
What is the role of the project manager in the closed project or phase process group?
Completion or exit criteria are satisfied
Contractual agreements are complete
Projects deliverables are transferred to production or operations
Suggestions for improvements in procedures are collected
Satisfaction of stakeholders is measured
What are the inputs for close project all phase process group?
Project documents
Business documents
Project charter
Project management plan
Agreements
Accepted deliverables
Organizational process assets
Procurement documentation
What are the outputs for closed project or phase process group?
Organizational process assets update
Final report
Final product service or result transition
Project documents update
What tools and techniques should be used for the closed project or phase process group?
Meetings
Expert judgment
Data analysis
