Project Integration Management (17) Flashcards
What is the objective of Project Integration Management?
Includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various process and PM activities within the PM process groups
What subprocesses (7) are included with the Process Groups for Project Integration Management?
(Initiation) Develop Project Charter (Planning) Develop Project Management Plan (Executing) Direct and manage project work, Manage Project knowledge (Monitor and Control) Monitor and Control Project work, Perform Integrated Change Control (Closing) Close Project/Phase
What is the Develop Project Charter subprocess?
Formally authorize a project or a project phase document initial requirements, needs and expectations of stakeholders
What is contained within a Project Charter?
The Project Title - Project Purpose of Justification - High Level Description, Goals, and Objectives - High Level Requirements - The Key Stakeholders and their roles - High Level Risks (constraints and assumptions) - Summary Budget (ROM) & Summary milestone schedule - Project Approval Requirements - Name and Authority of the sponsor authorizing the project charter - PM, responsibility and authority level
What are the outputs of Develop Project Charter?
Project Charter, Assumption Log
What is the Develop Project Management Plan?
Documenting activities/actions such as defining, integrating, and coordinating all planning outputs and subsidiary plans into a major project document.
What are the Inputs for Project Management Plan?
Project Charter, Outputs from Planning Processes, Ent Env Factors, Org Process Assets
What are the Tools & Techniques of Project Management Plan?
Expert Judgement, Data Gathering, Interpersonal & Team Skills
What are the outputs of Develop Project Management Plan?
Project Management Plan
What is Direct and Manage Project Work?
Executing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project’s objectives
What are the 3 Direct and Manage Project Work - Actions?
Corrective Action, Preventative Action, Defect Repair
Define Corrective Actions?
An action to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan (also known as counter measures)
Define Preventative Action?
Is a proactive step to reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks
Define Defect Repair (Action)?
Identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to repair the defect or completely replace the component
What are the Direct and Manage Project Work Activities?
Create project deliverables, acquire project resources, develop and manage project team members, implement all the plans, establish and manage communication needs to stakeholders, manage and implement risk response plans, implement approved change requests, review project performance data with the stakeholders, receive responses and apply selection, criteria to pick a supplier/seller, manage stakeholders and their engagement, Implement the planned methods and standards
What are the Direct and Manage Project Work Tools and Techniques?
PMIS (project management information’s systems), Expert Judgement, Meetings
What is PMIS?
Project Managed Information Systems - part of Ent Env Factors. Provides a set of automated tools that allows PM to collect, store and distribute the outputs of PM processes to the project management team. Indirectly it is nothing but project server. Configuration management system (CMS) is also part of PMIS, and in some projects Change Control Systems is also part of CMS.
What are the Direct and Mange Project Work Outputs?
Deliverables, Work performance data, change requests, project management plan, project management updates
What is Manage Project Knowledge?
Process of using existing knowledge and creating new knowledge to achieve project’s goals, objectives and contribute to organizational learning
What are the inputs for Manage Project Knowledge?
Project Management Plan, Project Documents, Deliverables Ent Env Factors, ,Org Process Assets
What are the Tools and Techniques for Manage Project Knowledge?
Expert Judgement, Knowledge Management, Information Management, Interpersonal & Team Skills
What are the outputs for Manage Project Knowledge?
Lessons Learned Register, Project Management Plan, Organizational Process Updates
Define Monitor and Control Project Work?
Monitoring and Controlling the processes used to initiate, plan, execute, and close a project to meet the performance objectives
What are the inputs for Monitor and Control Project Work?
Project Management Plan, Assumption Log, Issue Log, Schedule Forecasts, Cost Forecasts, Work Performance Info, Ent Env Factors, Org process assets
What are the Tools and techniques for Monitor and Control Project Work?
Expert Judgment, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Meetings
What are the outputs for Monitor and Control Project Work?
Work Performance Reports, Change Requests, Project management Plan, Project Documents Updates
What are the Monitor And Control Project Work Activities?
Identify new risks and analyze, track, and monitor identified risks - comparing actual project performance against the project management plan - maintain accurate, timely information and their associated documentation through project completion - Provide forecasts to update current cost and schedule information - assessing project performance - monitoring and implementation of approved changes as they occur
Define integrated change control?
Process of reviewing all change requests, approving changes and managing changes to the deliverables, updating organizational process assets, project documents and the project management plan.
What are the outputs for integrated change control?
Approved change requests, change log, Work Performance Reports, Project Management Plan, Project Documents Updates
What are the perform Integrated Change Control Activities?
Manage approved change, Maintain integrity of baselines - reviewing, approving, or denying all recommended corrective and preventative actions - Documenting the complete impact of change requests - Reviewing, analyzing, and approving change requests promptly - influencing the factors that circumvent integrated change control so that only approved changes are implemented
Define the Close Project or Phase?
Finalizing all activities completed across all Project Management Process Groups to formally close the project or phase
What are the Closing Procedures?
Control Quality (Correctness), Validate Scope (Completeness), Close Procurements, Close Financials, Update Skills Database, Lessons learned, Release Resources
What is Explicit Knowledge?
Knowledge can be readily used by using words, pictures, and numbers. That is how you can present or share project related information with the stakeholders
What is Tacit knowledge?
Is personal and difficult to express. Knowledge like project insights, beliefs, experience with the situation etc.
