Project Integration Management (17)

Question 1

What is the objective of Project Integration Management?

Answer 1

Includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various process and PM activities within the PM process groups

Question 2

What subprocesses (7) are included with the Process Groups for Project Integration Management?

Answer 2

(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

Question 3

What is the Develop Project Charter subprocess?

Answer 3

Formally authorize a project or a project phase document initial requirements, needs and expectations of stakeholders

Question 4

What is contained within a Project Charter?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What are the outputs of Develop Project Charter?

Answer 5

Project Charter, Assumption Log

Question 6

What is the Develop Project Management Plan?

Answer 6

Documenting activities/actions such as defining, integrating, and coordinating all planning outputs and subsidiary plans into a major project document.

Question 7

What are the Inputs for Project Management Plan?

Answer 7

Project Charter, Outputs from Planning Processes, Ent Env Factors, Org Process Assets

Question 8

What are the Tools & Techniques of Project Management Plan?

Answer 8

Expert Judgement, Data Gathering, Interpersonal & Team Skills

Question 9

What are the outputs of Develop Project Management Plan?

Answer 9

Project Management Plan

Question 10

What is Direct and Manage Project Work?

Answer 10

Executing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project’s objectives

Question 11

What are the 3 Direct and Manage Project Work - Actions?

Answer 11

Corrective Action, Preventative Action, Defect Repair

Question 12

Define Corrective Actions?

Answer 12

An action to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan (also known as counter measures)

Question 13

Define Preventative Action?

Answer 13

Is a proactive step to reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks

Question 14

Define Defect Repair (Action)?

Answer 14

Identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to repair the defect or completely replace the component

Question 15

What are the Direct and Manage Project Work Activities?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

What are the Direct and Manage Project Work Tools and Techniques?

Answer 16

PMIS (project management information’s systems), Expert Judgement, Meetings

Question 17

What is PMIS?

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

What are the Direct and Mange Project Work Outputs?

Answer 18

Deliverables, Work performance data, change requests, project management plan, project management updates

Question 19

What is Manage Project Knowledge?

Answer 19

Process of using existing knowledge and creating new knowledge to achieve project’s goals, objectives and contribute to organizational learning

Question 20

What are the inputs for Manage Project Knowledge?

Answer 20

Project Management Plan, Project Documents, Deliverables Ent Env Factors, ,Org Process Assets

Question 21

What are the Tools and Techniques for Manage Project Knowledge?

Answer 21

Expert Judgement, Knowledge Management, Information Management, Interpersonal & Team Skills

Question 22

What are the outputs for Manage Project Knowledge?

Answer 22

Lessons Learned Register, Project Management Plan, Organizational Process Updates

Question 23

Define Monitor and Control Project Work?

Answer 23

Monitoring and Controlling the processes used to initiate, plan, execute, and close a project to meet the performance objectives

Question 24

What are the inputs for Monitor and Control Project Work?

Answer 24

Project Management Plan, Assumption Log, Issue Log, Schedule Forecasts, Cost Forecasts, Work Performance Info, Ent Env Factors, Org process assets

Question 25

What are the Tools and techniques for Monitor and Control Project Work?

Answer 25

Expert Judgment, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Meetings

Question 26

What are the outputs for Monitor and Control Project Work?

Answer 26

Work Performance Reports, Change Requests, Project management Plan, Project Documents Updates

Question 27

What are the Monitor And Control Project Work Activities?

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Define integrated change control?

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

What are the outputs for integrated change control?

Answer 29

Approved change requests, change log, Work Performance Reports, Project Management Plan, Project Documents Updates

Question 30

What are the perform Integrated Change Control Activities?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Define the Close Project or Phase?

Answer 31

Finalizing all activities completed across all Project Management Process Groups to formally close the project or phase

Question 32

What are the Closing Procedures?

Answer 32

Control Quality (Correctness), Validate Scope (Completeness), Close Procurements, Close Financials, Update Skills Database, Lessons learned, Release Resources

Question 33

What is Explicit Knowledge?

Answer 33

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

Question 34

What is Tacit knowledge?

Answer 34

Is personal and difficult to express. Knowledge like project insights, beliefs, experience with the situation etc.