Project Integration

Question 1

What does integration mean?

Answer 1

Bringing together various factors to form a whole. Combining work from all knowledge areas to ensure resources, deadlines, and the project life cycle are aligned

Question 2

What does the PM do in Process Integration Mgmt?

Answer 2

Work with stakeholders and guide your team.
Ultimately responsible for the project - as you have to manage all of the other project management processes and oversee them, communicate them, etc.

Question 3

Process Groups in Process Integration, and their main outputs

Answer 3

7 total

(1)Develops Project Charter and (2)PM Plan, (3+4)oversee the work defined in them, (5+6)monitor and change them as needed, (7)closing it.

Question 4

What are some good birds eye view strategies to consider?

Answer 4

• what is the right life cycle
• picking the right development approach
• How will information be communicated

Question 5

What does the Project charter do?

Answer 5

1. Grants authority
2. Formal record of project
3. Links the organization to the project

Question 6

What is a business case?

Answer 6

study that shows the value of completing the project.

Question 7

What are the lifecycle types to consider for the PM Plan?

Answer 7

Predictive/Adaptive

Question 8

What are the main components of the PM Plan?

Answer 8

A Management Plan for all other PM Processes except for this process, with an additional plan called “Requirements Mgmt Plan”. 10 in total.

Question 9

What does the Configuration Management Plan describe

Answer 9

Identifies the items that will be recorded and updated so the product of the project remains consistent and operable

Question 10

What is project knowledge?

Answer 10

Skills, experience, talent, and expertise used to achieve project objectives

Question 11

What does the Manage Project Knowledge Process do?

Answer 11

Makes sure ALL stakeholder communicate and are informed before, during and after the project.

Question 12

What are the types of knowledge?

Answer 12

• Explicit Knowledge - expressed in words/textbooks/storable and easy to communicate/distribute
• Tacit Knowledge

Question 13

What does monitoring entail?

Answer 13

• Collecting, measuring, and assessing measurements/trends

- Identifying areas that need correction

Question 14

What does controlling entail?

Answer 14

• Determining corrective/preventative actions to return the project to a healthy path
• Following up on action plans

Question 15

What are change requests?

Answer 15

• They are used to issue expansions/adjustments on the project scope, product scope, or quality requirements
• Might mean collecting and documenting new requirements
• Impact the PM Plan, Project documents, and product deliverables

Question 16

What is the purpose of integrated change control? How does the PM fit in?

Answer 16

• Reviewing all change requests, prioritizing and implementing them.
• PM or another person/board would be responsible for this. PM will be a facilitator if not fully in charge.

Question 17

What Process Group’s input’s are change requests?

Answer 17

Directing and managing project work

Question 18

Whare are 2 important concepts related to the Perform Integrated Change Control Process?

Answer 18

Configuration management
Deals with modifications made to the product or the processes used to make the product

Change Management
Changes that identify, document, approve, or reject changes to project documents, deliverables, or baselines:

Question 19

What are the types of approved change requests?

Answer 19

Corrective, preventative, defect, repair

Question 20

What roles do PM’s play when closing the project?

Answer 20

• If project was terminated early, engage with all stakeholders to collect info about why this happened
• If project was completed:
  • Completion or exit criteria are satisfied
  • Contractual agreements are complete
  • Project deliverables are transferred to production or operations
  • Suggestions for improvement in procedures are collected
  Satisfaction of stakeholders is measured

Question 21

What does the Final Report do?

Answer 21

look at the criteria used to evaluate the project initially, and then any variances, and how actual performance held up