Project Integration Management Flashcards
Project Integration Management
Processes and activities to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups.
Project Integration Management Processes
- Develop Project Charter
- Develop Project Management Plan
- Direct and Manage Project Work
- Manage Project Knowledge
- Monitor and Control Project Work
- Perform Integrated Change Control
- Close Project or Phase
Trends and Emerging Practices in Project Integration Management
- Use of automated tools
- Use of visual management tools
- Project knowledge management
- Expanding the project manager’s responsibilities
- Hybrid methodologies
Develop Project Charter
Process of developing a document that formally authorizes the existence of the project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Develop Project Charter Key Benefits
- Provides a direct link between the project and the strategic objectives of the organization
- Creates a formal record of the project
- Shows the organizational commitment to the project
Develop Project Charter: Inputs
- Business Document: Business Case
- Agreements
- Enterprise Environmental Factors
- Organizational Process Assets
Business Case
Describes the necessary information from a business standpoint to determine whether the expected outcomes of the project justify the required investment
Why is Business Case created?
- Market demand
- Organizational need
- Customer request
- Technological advance
- Legal requirement
- Ecological impacts
- Social need
Agreements
Used to define initial intentions for a project (contracts, memorandums of understanding, service level agreements, letter of agreement, letters of intent, verbal agreements, email, or other written agreement)
Develop Project Charter: Tools and Techniques
- Expert Judgment
- Data Gathering
- Brainstorming
- Focus Groups
- Interviews
- Interpersonal and Team Skills
- Conflict Management
- Facilitation
- Meeting Management
- Meetings
Expert Judgment
Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area, knowledge area, discipline, industry, etc., as appropriate for the activity being performed.
Brainstorming
Used to identify a list of ideas in a short period of time. Comprises of two parts: Idea Generation and Analysis
Focus Groups
Bring together stakeholders and SMEs to learn about the perceived project risk, success criteria and other topics in a more conversational way than a one-on-one interview.
Interviews
Used to obtain information on high-level requirements, assumptions, or constraints, approval criteria, and other information from stakeholders by talking directly to them.
Conflict Management
Used to help bring stakeholders into alignment on the objectives, success criteria, high-level requirements, project description, summary milestones, and other elements of the charter
Facilitation
Ability to effectively guide a group event to a successful decision, solution or conclusion (Effective Participation)
Meeting Management
Includes preparing the agenda, ensuring that a representative for each key stakeholder group is invited, preparing and sending the follow-up minutes and actions.
Develop Project Charter: Outputs
- Project Charter
* Assumption Log
Project Charter
Issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Assumption Log
Used to record all assumptions and constraints throughout the project life cycle.
Develop Project Management Plan
Process of defining, preparing, and coordinating all plan components and consolidating them into an integrated project management plan.
Develop Project Management Plan Key Benefit
Production of a comprehensive document that defines the basis of all project work and how the work will be performed.
Develop Project Management Plan: Inputs
- Project Charter
- Outputs from other processes
- Enterprise Environmental Factors
- Organizational Process Assets
Development Project Management Plan: Tools and Techniques
- Expert Judgment
- Data Gathering
- Brainstorming
- Checklists
- Focus Groups
- Interviews
- Interpersonal and Team Skills
- Conflict Management
- Facilitation
- Meeting Management
- Meetings: Project Kick-off Meeting
Project Kick-off Meeting
To communicate the objectives of the project, gain the commitment of the team for the project, and explain the roles and responsibilities of each stakeholders.
Develop Project Management Plan: Outputs
- Project Management Plan:
- Subsidiary Management Plans
- Scope Management Plan
- Requirements Management Plan
- Schedule Management Plan
- Cost Management Plan
- Quality Management Plan
- Resource Management Plan
- Communications Management Plan
- Risk Management Plan
- Procurement Management Plan
- Stakeholder EngagementPlan
- Baselines
- Scope Baseline
- Schedule Baseline
- Cost Baseline
- Additional Components
- Change Management Plan
- Configuration Management Plan
- Performance Measurement Baseline
- Project Life Cycle
- Development Approach
- Management Reviews
- Subsidiary Management Plans
Project Management Plan
Document that describes how the project will be executed, monitored and controlled, and closed.
Scope Management Plan
Establishes how the scope will be defined, developed, monitored, controlled, and validated.
Requirements Management Plan
Establishes how the requirements will be analyzed, documented, and managed.
Schedule Management Plan
Establishes the criteria and the activities for developing, monitoring, and controlling the schedule.
Cost Management Plan
Establishes how the costs will be planned, structured, and controlled.
Quality Management Plan
Establishes how an organization’s quality policies, methodologies, and standards will be implemented in the project.
Resource Management Plan
Provides guidance on how project resources should be categorized, allocated, managed, and released.
Communications Management Plan
Establishes how, when, and by whom information about the project will be administered and disseminated.
Risk Management Plan
Establishes how the risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Procurement Management Plan
Establishes how the project team will acquire goods and services from outside of the performing organization.
Stakeholder Engagement Plan
Establishes how stakeholders will be engaged in project decisions and execution, according to their needs, interests, and impact.
Scope Baseline
The approved version of a scope statement, work breakdown structure (WBS), and its associated WBS dictionary, which is used as a basis for comparison.
Schedule Baseline
The approved version of the schedule model that is used as a basis for comparison to the actual result.
Cost Baseline
The approved version of the time-phased project budget that is used as a basis for comparison to the actual results.
Change Management Plan
Describes how the change requests throughout the project will be formally authorized and incorporated.
Configuration Management Plan
Describes how the information about the items of the project (and which items) will be recorded and updated so that the product, service, or result of the project remains consistent and/or operative.
Performance Measurement Baseline
An integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance.
Project Life Cycle
Describes the series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Development Approach
Describes the product, service, or result development approach, such as predictive, iterative, agile, or hybrid model.
Management Reviews
Identifies the points in the project manager and relevant stakeholders will review the project progress to determine if performance is as expected, or if preventive or corrective actions are necessary.
Direct and Manage Project Work
Process of leading and performing the work defined in the project management plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the project’s objectives.
Direct and Manage Project Work Key Benefit
Provides overall management of the project work and deliverables, thus improving the probability of the project success.
Direct and Manage Project Work: Inputs
- Project Management Plan
- Any component
- Project Documents
- Change Log
- Lessons Learned Register
- Milestone List
- Project Communications
- Project Schedule
- Requirements Traceability Matrix
- Risk Register
- Risk Report
- Approved Change Requests
- EEFs
- OPAs
Change Log
Contains the status of all change requests