Processes Flashcards
Develop Project Management Plan
PG: Planning
KA: Integration
4.2 The process of defining, preparing, and coordinating all subsidiary plans and integrating them into a comprehensive project management plan. The project’s integrated baselines and subsidiary plans may be included within the project management plan.
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- Expert judgment
- Facilitation techniques
Develop Project Charter
PG: Initiating
KA: Integration
4.1 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.
TT
- Expert judgment
- Facilitation
Direct and Manage Project Work
PG: Executing
KA: Integration
4.3 The process of leading and performing the work defined in the project management plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the project’s objectives.
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- Expert judgment
- PMIS
- Meetings
Monitor and Control Project Work
PG: Monitoring and Controlling
KA: Integration
4.4 The process of tracking, reviewing, and reporting project progress against the performance objectives defined in the project management plan.
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- Expert judgment
- Analytical techniques
- PMIS
- Meetings
Perform Integrated Change Control
PG: Monitoring and Controlling
KA: Integration
4.5 The process of reviewing all change requests; approving changes and managing changes to deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents, and the project management plan; and communicating their disposition.
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- Expert judgment
- Meetings
- Change control tools
Close Project or Phase
PG: Closing
KA: Integration
4.6 Close Project or Phase is the process of finalizing all activities across all of the Project Management Process Groups to formally complete the project or phase.
TT
- Expert judgment
- Analytical techniques
- Meetings
Plan Scope Management
PG: Planning
KA: Scope
5.1 The process of creating a scope management plan that documents how the project scope will be defined, validated, and controlled.
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- Expert judgment
- Meetings
Collect Requirements
PG: Planning
KA: Scope
5.2 The process of determining, documenting, and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives.
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- Interviews
- Focus groups
- Facilitated workshops
- Group creativity techniques
- Group decision-making techniques
- Questionnaires and surveys
- Observations
- Prototypes
- Benchmarking
- Context diagrams
- Document analysis
Define Scope
PG: Planning
KA: Scope
5.3 The process of developing a detailed description of the project and product.
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- Expert judgment
- Product analysis
- Alternatives generation
- Facilitated workshops
Create WBS
PG: Planning
KA: Scope
5.4 The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components.
TT
- Decomposition
- Expert judgment
Validate Scope
PG: Monitoring and Controlling
KA: Scope
5.5 The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables.
TT
- Inspection
- Group decision-makaing techniques
Control Scope
PG: Monitoring and Controlling
KA: Scope
5.6 The process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.
TT
- Variance analysis
Plan Schedule Management
PG: Planning
KA: Time
6.1 The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule.
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- Expert judgment
- Analytical techniques
- Meetings
Define Activities
PG: Planning
KA: Time
6.2 The process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables.
TT
- Decomposition
- Rolling wave planning
Sequence Activities
PG: Planning
KA: Time
6.3 The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities.
TT
- PDM
- Dependency determination
- Leads and lags
Estimate Activity Resources
PG: Planning
KA: Time
6.4 The process of estimating the type and quantities of material, human resources, equipment, or supplies required to perform each activity.
TT
- Expert judgment
- Alternative analysis
- Published estimating data
- Bottom-up estimating
- Project management software
Estimate Activity Durations
PG: Planning
KA: Time
6.5 The process of estimating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources.
TT
- Expert judgement
- Analogous estimating
- Parametric estimating
- Three-point estimating
- Group decision-making techniques
- Reserve analysis
Develop Schedule
PG: Planning
KA: Time
6.6 The process of analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints to create the project schedule model.
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- Schedule network analysis
- Critical path method
- Critical chain method
- Resource optimization techniques
1) Resource leveling
2) Resource smoothing - Modeling techniques
1) What-if scenario
2) Simulation - Leads and lags
- Schedule compression
1) Crashing
2) Fast tracking - Scheduling tool